Bihar: In a historic mandate, Gaya elects manual scavenger Chinta Devi as Deputy Mayor
Chinta Devi, who was also backed by former Deputy mayor Mohan Srivastava, had worked as sanitation worker and vegetable seller in the past.
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Chinta Devi, who was also backed by former Deputy mayor Mohan Srivastava, had worked as sanitation worker and vegetable seller in the past.
Such a milestone, however, is not new for Gaya. Bhagwati Devi, a woman from the highly marginalised musahar community, who was a stone crusher by profession, was elected to the Lok Sabha from the Gaya constituency in 1996.
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