Former Chief Minister Ashok Chavan’s daughter Shreejaya is all set to contest the upcoming Assembly election from Bhokar constituency of Nanded district on a BJP ticket. Now it needs to be seen whether she takes ahead the legacy of her grandfather.
Born in 1992, Shreejaya is a lawyer by profession. She has been helping her father in managing his political office for quite some time now. She came to limelight when she walked a substantially good distance with Congress leader Rahul Gandhi during Bharat Jodo Yatra.
She was behind the show of strength that her father displayed during the Yatra a couple of years back before joining the BJP. It was a social media post by her father that is considered to have brought her forth as his probable political successor back then. With announcement of her candidature today the speculations have gained momentum.
Born and brought up in the family of Union ministers and Chief Ministers, Shreejaya never had a groups of friends like other kids of her age would have. She misses the thing even today. However, she learnt to fill the gap by making friends with technology and animals at a very young age. Though she is a lawyer by education she has a good sense of technology and several ideas about how it can be engaged for the betterment of the people and to communicate with the people.
It was this friendship of her with the technology that led her to launch ‘Ashok Chavan Seva Setu’, a telephone-based platform to resolve issues concerning people for which they often run to the politician. She conceived the idea and launched the service while her father was the guardian minister of the Nanded district. Her tech-savvy-ness was also instrumental in starting the Namaste Nanded digital platform which has over 1,25,000 followers on Instagram from her home district.
Though her schooling and college education happened primarily in Mumbai, she never lost her touch with Nanded. In fact, she has systematically nurtured the connect over past few years by taking interest in management of the Kusum Mahotsav and the Sangeet Shankar Darbar – the two festivals started by her family in memory her of her grandparents. While the musical program in memory of late Shankarrao Chavan attracts the ace talent in the field of music every year, the festival in memory of Shreejaya’s grandmother Kusumtai is dedicated to women’s empowerment and attracts a host of women’s self-help groups from the region.
Shreejaya has seen sharp twists and turns of the politics at a very early stage in her life and it is said that it was she who encouraged her father to stand up again and fight after his defeat in 2019 election.
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