Mumbai:
Renowned lawyer and BJP Lok Sabha candidate from Mumbai North Central seat Ujjwal Nikam on Thursday said politics is a new challenge and asserted that he accepted all kinds of challenges while prosecuting criminal cases.
In an interview with PTI, Mr Nikam (71) said he had joined the Bharatiya Janata Party because Prime Minister Narendra Modi's sterling work had increased the country's standing in the world.
“Politics is a new challenge and I will win the trust of the common man,” he said.
Stressing that he would work towards implementation of the BJP's manifesto, Mr Nikam said he wanted to participate in the law-making process in Parliament so that the common man's faith in democracy is strengthened.
“I would like to change extradition laws so that more and more criminals are brought to justice. I will put forward the ideas I have and if the party approves it, I will work on it,” said Mr Nikam, who appeared as a special prosecutor in the House of Representatives. some of the country's most high-profile cases, including the 1993 serial attacks in Mumbai and the trial of Ajmal Kasab, the only terrorist captured after the 26/11 Mumbai attacks.
Speaking about his Mumbai North Central Lok Sabha seat, Mr. Nikam said the party had chosen it for him and added that he was trying to know more about the problems of its residents and looking for ways to address it ensure that these are resolved by the state and center governments. .
Asked about his opponent Varsha Gaikwad, a sitting MLA and Congress Mumbai unit chief, Mr Nikam said she was a senior politician.
“She is promoting her political agenda, while I will do the same for my party. I am confident that I will be successful,” Mr. Nikam asserted.
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