ALLAHABAD: When the voters of Sangam City would cast their votes for electing the next mayor of the city on November 26, they will have the option among 24 candidates, each having different level of education. Among these 24 candidates, only 10 are graduates.While one of the candidate has never gone to school, 11 others are high school or have passed the lower level classes. There are two engineers too among these dozens candidates.Among the candidates in fray for the post of mayor, two are engineers, one each is postgraduate and intermediate, four each having bachelor and degree in law, seven are high school pass, two are junior high school pass, two are educated of just primary level and one is illiterate.However, barring most of the independent candidates, all the major political parties, barring BSP, have fielded well qualified candidates. Vijay Mishra of Congress is BCom, Abhilasha Gupta of BJP is graduate, Vinod Kumar Dubey of SP and Majesh Kumar of NCP are LLB and Salil Srivastava of AAP has done five year course in Law.But the voters of the city have sharp differences on the issue of whether their mayor should be well qualified or educational background hardly makes a difference."Irrespective of the fact that I will advocate for candidate of my party, I personally feel that every public representative should be well educated especially in the changed circumstances when internet, online system etc are so important. Over all, people of the city would have to be very selective as the next mayor of the city would play a significant role in making Allahabad a 'Smart City", said, four times MLA from Allahabad North assembly seat and senior leader of congress party, Anugrah Narayan Singh.At the same time there are many for whom education hardly makes a difference. "Jaida pade-likhon ko vote denge to wo hamari baat sunge kya (If I vote more qualified candidate, will he listen to me, for people like me, the one who is accessible and solves the problem is better candidate, whether he is well qualified or high school pass), said Vijay Shankar keserwani , a businessman of the city.

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