SATISH JAIN, AAM AADMI PARTY CANDIDATE FROM NORTH MUMBAI

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“Politics is the science of ideal Governance, and not, as the popular belief goes, the art of winning and maintaining an elected office,” Will Durant 

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Lok Sabha candidate from North Mumbai constituency, Satish Jain is a B-School grad and one of Asia’s top rated fund managers who gave up his lucrative career to take up full time politics. The 45-year old finance professional, has served as the Portfolio Manager for HDFC and Executive Director for Morgan Stanley, among others, in a highflying career that spanned eighteen years.

Satish has grand visions for North Mumbai. He plans to apply text book management principles to make the constituency one of the most progressive in the world. Some of the key issues he has identified include extremely overloaded public transportation system; poor East-West connectivity; insufficient number of schools, colleges and hospitals; and non-availability of play grounds for general public, among others. He believes that with a little bit of political will and integrity of intent, the problems and issues of the constituency could have been solved a long time back.

Coming from a meritorious and corporate background, Satish has strong views about the inefficient and bureaucratic way the Government is run today. He envisages a system where incentives and deterrence stimulate the Government machinery to make quicker and people centric decisions. 

Allied with Arvind Kejriwal since the India Against Corruption (IAC) movement and inspired by the same, Satish has been working extensively on the economic policy and manifesto of AAP. He was also responsible for exposing the electricity scam in Maharashtra.

Satish is deeply spiritual and practices Raja Yoga meditation. His wife, Meenal Jain, is an artist by profession and an engineer by degree. He has two children, Dhwanit and Kartika.

He is one of the six candidates fielded by AAP in Mumbai. Other candidates of the party include, Mayank Gandhi from Mumbai North West, Medha Patkar from Mumbai North East, Meera Sanyal from Mumbai South, Phiroze Palkhiwala from Mumbai North Central and Sunder Balakrishnan from Mumbai South Central.

North Mumbai Lok Sabha constituency covers the six Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) segments of Borivali, Dahisar, Magathane, Kandivali East, Charkop and Malad West.

Some of the key promises of AAP for Mumbai include reduction of electricity tariffs for lower end domestic households; construction of new schools and hospitals; crusade against donations to educational institutes; smoothening road commute and enabling better east-west connectivity by building more flyover and bringing in Metro; and, putting a stop to slum demolition till newer houses are provided to slum dwellers.

One of the youngest political parties in India, AAP was launched a year back to rid the corruption and rot that set into the system.