Delhi Election 2020: 25-year-old student leader Rocky Tuseed is both the poorest and the youngest candidate

• Congress’ Rocky Tuseed, 25, is the youngest and poorest candidate in the Delhi vidhan sabha election 2020 to be contesting from Rajendra Nagar.
  
• Tuseed claims to be a social worker, has movable assets worth over ₹55,000.
  
• He does not own any immovable assets.

Rocky Tuseed, 25, is the youngest and poorest candidate in the Delhi vidhan sabha election 2020. He claims to be a social worker with movable assets worth over ₹55,000.

He will be contesting from Rajendra Nagar on behalf of the Congress party. He is fielded against the Aam Aadmi Party's Raghav Chadha and the BJP's R P Singh.

He will be contesting from Rajendra Nagar on behalf of the Congress party. He is fielded against the Aam Aadmi Party's Raghav Chadha and the BJP's R P Singh. He does not have a vehicle in his name. Moreover, he does not have any pending criminal cases and does not own any immovable assets.

Tuseed joined politics when he became the president of Delhi University Students' Union in 2017. However, he was dismissed from the position for not disclosing that a disciplinary action was taken against him for assaulting a student. Later, he was reinstated as president by the Delhi High Court.

Tuseed was the reason behind Congress’ DUSU election victory which came after a gap of five years. He has lived in Rajendra Nagar since birth and claims to have close ties to the community

“I have been working in my area since 2018. Since I won the DUSU polls, people started coming to me with their problems and I helped them out. It was the people of the area who insisted that I contest the assembly polls,” he told Times of India.

(with IANS)

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