Kin come all the way from abroad to campaign

PK Jaiswar

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, January 19

Belonging to an educationist family, she believes that education is a riding force for uplift of any society and therefore, educated people must enter politics which would also stimulate necessary political reforms for a better India.

Meet Mantej Chhina, daughter of the Amritsar Lok Sabha contender from the SAD-BJP combine Rajinder Mohan Chhina. She came all the way from the US along with her family to support and campaign for her father. She is a doctorate in the Pharma sector and is working as a researcher in the US. She is not alone, her brother Manraj Chhina, who was in Canada, has also joined the family in order to campaign for him. Along with them is their mother Tejinider Kaur Chhina.

"We have the responsibility of door-to-door campaigning. This is not practically possible to visit each and every place for campaigning. Therefore, my father attends election meetings and we visit houses for garnering voters’ support for the party,” she told.

Tejinder Kaur, who took premature retirement and runs her own school, said: "By visiting the entire belt we came to know about problems being faced by people at the ground level. We share these things during family meetings and this would be help in bringing in projects from the Centre, if we win these by-poll."

Manraj, who helps his father in his business and farming, said it was also encouraging that there was a lot of scope for educated people in politics and youth was getting politically more aware nowadays.

"My family is my formidable support,” said Rajinder Mohan Chhina.

The family meets during breakfast and discusses about the day-to-day developments and progress in the campaigning. After the meeting, Chhina leave for attending election meetings, his family members chalk out plans and areas they would be visiting during the day. In the evening, they again meet and discuss various issues like how to go about campaigning more vigorously.