AAP’s Payal Patel Becomes The Youngest Corporator Of Surat In Gujarat

Mumbai: Payal Patel, a 22-year-old model and actor by profession, won a stunning victory in the Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) elections on Tuesday. The leader of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has now become the youngest corporator of Ward 16 in Surat, Gujarat.

Patel, the final year B Com student from Amreli, defeated her Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rival in Ward 16, Poorna (West) region by a margin of more than 12,000 votes.

Patel told news agency IANS, “I have no words to express myself. Of course, I was confident about winning, but not with such a big margin, , especially when we were fighting against a sitting corporator.”

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“We were in constant contact with the people of my ward for the last six months and I know practically every person in our ward. We have many other issues like narrow roads, open drains, no government schools. My first priority. Something has to be done about the open drain, “Patel said.

“I don’t think that it makes a difference whether I am in the ruling party or in the opposition. I firmly believe that if one wants to serve the public, even while in the opposition, one can make a difference,” she added.

Payal Patel is an actress and has acted in a Gujarati film, ‘Taari Maari Dosti‘. She has also featured in over 50 songs, some of them Gujarati hit remixes like, ‘Maiyer Ma Manadu Nathi Mantu‘.

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