NDTV Exclusive With Cuttack Barabati MLA Sofia Firdous
Sofia Firdous, the Congress MLA from the Barabati-Cuttack seat in Odisha, has got her name registered in history books. She is the first-ever Muslim woman legislator to have been elected to the Odisha Assembly. With 30 days left and no candidate, the Congress pinned its hope on Ms Firdous. The 32-year-old abandoned her career as a real estate developer and defeated BJP's Purna Chandra Mahapatra by a margin of 8,001 votes, making her the state's first-ever woman Muslim MLA.
