Kirron Kher took criticism sportingly; emerged as the winner in Chandigarh

When Kirron Kher first started her campaign in Chandigarh, her rival former Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal was optimistic for a win.

But as the days rolled by, the Modi undercurrent took center stage and in the final reckoning, Kiran romped home with a victory margin of over 40,000 votes.

Kher was criticized on all fronts, even by her own party men who did not want her as the BJP candidate for the second time. But she remained unfazed by the opposition's attempts to pin her down. To top that she actually took it in a positive way.

For example, an in-depth story on Kher's hits and misses in the Bangalore-based community news portal Citizen Matters in fact spurred her to remove the shortcomings in her campaign. The write up by Raj Machhan was an unbiased and objective analysis of the election scene in Chandigarh.

Titled In Chandigarh, sitting MP Kirron Kher's hits and misses under close scrutiny, the Opinion piece made a mention of her weak points.  But to her credit Kher actually set about trying to fill the gaps mentioned.

Now that sure is the mark of good leader. 

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Children of a Lesser God?

Last week, I happened to visit Asha Kiran, a Home for rehabilitation of destitute and differently-abled children. Located in sector 46, Chandigarh, Asha Kiran is a government institution and like much else that has the prefix Govt attached to its name, this institution too is falling victim to official apathy just within one year of its inauguration.




Living quarters
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I dont have many words to express what I felt, and how I feel about it now. Words, I guess, are inadequate in this case. Sadly, I am not a good photographer and I was in no mood to capture any images. But whatever photographs I could manage with my mobile phone, are given below:

Kids in their common room