Eunuch's election as mayor annulled

BHOPAL: For the second time in Madhya Pradesh, the political ambition of eunuchs received a massive jolt after a court on Friday annulled the election of a mayor on grounds of gender. Kamala Kinnar (57)-- a eunuch-- was elected mayor of Sagar town in November 2009. She won the mayoral election as an independent candidate with a margin of over 43,000 votes defeating her nearest BJP rival Suman Ahirwar.
Two years after the election, the Sagar district court on Friday declared Kamala Kinnar's election as "null and void" because the mayor's seat was reserved for a 'woman' belonging to scheduled caste category.
Madhya Pradesh was the state that showed the way to eunuchs to enter politics, electing the country's first third-gender Mayor and MLA. But the country's first eunuch mayor Kamla Jaan of Katni Municipality in 2003 faced the same fate as her namesake Kamala Kinnar of Sagar Municipality did on Friday. First eunuch mayor Kamla Jaan was elected as mayor of Katni in 1999. In a significant verdict
In 2003, the High Court upheld that Kamla Jaan was not a "woman" and hence she was asked to step down from the post of mayor, reserved for female candidate.