She’s a post-graduate from the London School of Economics (LSE). Now she has taken on a totally different avatar — a champion of housemaids in Pune. The 50-year-old Kiran Moghe is also the official candidate of CPM from the city — the first time the party is fielding a candidate from the city for assembly polls after 1962. Incidentally, Moghe is the lone candidate being fielded by CPM from Pune.

Moghe, before taking up the Marxian cause some 15 years ago, was a general manager in Maharashtra Energy Development Authority (MEDA) for seven years. Moghe is being fielded as a candidate from the Parvati Assembly constituency as part of the newly-forged Republican-Left democratic third front.

Moghe completed her post-graduation from LSE in 1981 before coming back to Pune from where she had taken her degree in Economics from the Fergusson College. “By that time my father and mother had shifted to the UK but I always wanted to come back. While staying in the UK, I got to travel across Europe and learn things about various social movements,” Moghe told Newsline.

While in college, she got associated with a group that had inclination towards leftist ideology. “The decade of 1970s saw turmoil all over country. During emergency, we used take part in various programmes. These impressions were instrumental in making up my mind to work for the society,” she said. After reaching Pune, she worked as a professor-cum-researcher in institutes like Yashwantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration and IndSearch. She then went on to head MEDA in the capacity of general manager and worked there for seven years.

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