Mafia don, eunuch too challenge Modi in Varanasi

But the party is trying to cajole the eunuchs into backing out.

Gorakhpur mayor Satya Pandey Thursday visited the convention and tried her bit to convince the eunuchs on pulling out of the fray.

The transgenders, however, are holding ground and have decided to go ahead with their decision to take on Modi, the spokesman further added.

In the 2012 state assembly elections, a little-known Rashtriya Viklang Party (RVP) had fielded 25 eunuchs in various segments.

Of the prominent transgenders who contested the state elections were national president of Kinnar Morcha, Shobha Bua who contested the Dhaulana assembly seat in Ghaziabad and Shabnam Mausi, who won the election from Suhagpur in Madhya Pradesh in 2000.