Abhishek Verma founded his own political party rather than join an established regional or national party. The Sarvajan Kalyan Loktantrik Party (SKLP) is just two weeks old and has fielded five candidates in the ongoing Lok Sabha polls. “I saw that people in Muzaffarpur, Bihar were fighting for their basic rights. It was then that I felt I had to do something; I had to get out of the drawing room and enter politics,” he says. Once out of the drawing room, Verma combined his experience in the financial sector with UBS and his stints in Oxford and Columbia to create a plan that delivered change locally. In less than two years, he facilitated loans of more than Rs 3.5 crore to over 1,200 fish farmers, life insurance to more than 2,400 people and helped bring in investment to set up a Rs 16 crore fish feed mill to ensure development of fish in the local fisheries. He worked closely with six panchayats in the regions to end open defecation. The effort has paid off; more than 2,000 toilets have already been built. Verma also worked to create self-help groups for women that were credit-linked to banks
Posted on: Tue, 06 May 2014 13:00:01 +0000
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