Yavatmal:
Kalavati may not contest the assembly election in Maharashtra. She is reportedly unwell and is admitted in a hospital.
Babytai Bais, a farmer widow with four children, is expected to be the replacement for Kalavati.
However, Kishore Tiwari, a member of the Vidarbha Janandolan Samiti, on whose ticket Kalavati was slated to contest the polls, has claimed that Kalavati has been under pressure from Sulabh International, an NGO that had helped her.
At the time of declaring that she would contest the polls, Kalavati had said that she agreed to do so to help the farmers who were killing themselves because of wrong government policies.
Kalvati became a household name after Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi narrated her story during the nuclear debate in Parliament. Overnight, the 48-year-old poor widow from Vidharbha became a centre of media attention. Everyone wanted to know more about her.