A former swimwear model has caused uproar across India by campaigning for a legislative seat in the country’s most populous state.
Archana Gautam, 26, is a journalism graduate and has appeared in a handful of Bollywood films. She was also Miss Bikini India 2018. Assertive and unapologetic, she looks and sounds nothing like the country’s typical female candidates, who must act and dress demurely to attain political office.
“To people who are abusing and making vulgar statements about me, I want to say that I have two professional lives and they are both different from each other. I would like them to not mix the two,” Gautam told local reporters.
“No one has the right to judge my character on the basis of my clothes,”
