This story is from March 13, 2021

Bhagalpur’s daughter is RJD candidate from Tinsukia

Bhagalpur’s daughter is RJD candidate from Tinsukia
PATNA: Hira Devi, the RJD candidate from the Tinsukia assembly seat in Assam, is a native of Bihar’s Bhagalpur district.
Born to Savitri Devi and freedom fighter Vishnu Dev Chaudhary, she spent her childhood at her native village Amarpur under the Bihpur police station of Bhagalpur.
She went to Assam in 1984 after her marriage to a Tinsukia-based businessman.
Even after shifting to Assam, she completed her graduation with History honours from a Bhagalpur-based college in 1990.
She entered into active politics in Assam in 2000 after she formed the Akhil Assam Hindi Bhasi Mahila Manch and openly protested against the wrongdoings of ULFA. She still heads the Manch as its founder president.
Besides being a successful businesswoman and becoming the first woman executive member of the Tinsukia Chamber of Commerce in 2008-09, Hira Devi, (now 52) is active members of more than a dozen social, political and business organisations in Assam, especially in Tinsukia township. She is also the trustee and office-bearers in the management committee of several Hindu temples in Tinsukia.
Interestingly, Hira was the treasurer of the Tinsukia District Congress Committee till March 9 (Tuesday), the day she filed her nomination as the RJD candidate from the Tinsukia assembly constituency. Her clout in the Congress can be gauged from the fact that she had been holding the post of treasurer in the district Congress committee since 2016. She was an active member of Congress since 2003.

Sources in RJD said, despite being an active member of Congress, Hira Devi got a ticket from RJD as the Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra prevailed upon her party leaders to leave Tinsukia assembly seat for Bihar’s leading opposition party RJD to make an all-inclusive alliance of opposition in Assam.
As Tinsukia seat went into the kitty of RJD, Hira, who had already applied for a Congress ticket, was asked to file her nomination as an RJD candidate who will have support from the Congress-led eight parties’ alliance.
“It is true that I had applied for a Congress ticket from Tinsukia seat. But as the seat went to RJD, the Congress leadership advised me to file the nomination as an RJD nominee. I am the candidate of the Congress-led alliance, contesting on an RJD ticket. I have the support of all parties in the alliance. All prominent leaders of the Congress-led alliance and the RJD extended their support when I filed my nomination on Tuesday,” Hira Devi told TOI over the phone from Tinsukia.
“My main aim is to make Tinsukia a greener, cleaner and better town and transform it into a hub for education, business and tourism,” she said over the phone.
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