New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday fielded a young party member Nupur Sharma to contest against Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal, ending speculation about who will the party field against Kejriwal in New Delhi seat.
Former president of the Delhi University Students’ Union, Nupur said she will give her best to contest the elections.
“I’m hopeful of winning. I’m a resident of this area. It’s an election of the party,” she said.
An alumnus of the Delhi Public School (Mathura Road), she did her LLM in International Business laws from the London School of Economics (LSE) in 2011 and is currently a lawyer by profession.
Sharma is a young face of the party and has been actively working since 2008 when she was a member of the BJP’s Yuva Morcha.
When asked about her chances going up against Kejriwal, the youngster seemed confident and said that she supposedly had seven more years of political experience on Kejriwal, who launched AAP in 2012.
The 30-year-old politician holds several key portfolios in the party and was featured as one of the ‘10 Most Inspirational Women’ by The Hindustan Times in March, 2009.
A woman rights activist and a good orator, Nupur Sharma is the only young member of the party to climb the success ladder in a short span of seven years of her political career.