Lucky Saxena wants to marry his partner someday. Image: Lucky Saxena
Lucky Saxena, a 23-year old from Noida, Uttar Pradesh began working for BJP politician Vimla Batham—a former MLA—a few years ago. On 29 May, he uploaded a complaint to the centralised public grievance portal (CPGRAMS), becoming the second gay man to do so this week.Saxena identifies as a homosexual and, he told me over the phone, is in a relationship with a Muslim man. On the prime minister’s complaint portal, he introduced himself:
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Saxena told me he stopped working at the BJP office in Noida after six months because he wanted “to work for some NGO that works for LGBTQ people.” I asked how much he’d known about his party’s stance on India’s queer community. “At that time I had no knowledge about that. It is only recently that I’ve come to know that they are against,” he said.Earlier, in late 2013, Saxena was involved in a campaign where he claims he helped collect 10,000 mobile numbers for BJP’s Apnaahangout. People send missed calls to a number and are called back to work for the party.“Gay by orientation, and I would like to humbly request you please legalize LGBTQ in India and also remove the section 377 bcuz I’m facing lots of problems in India, I have my partner and his religion by Muslim my mom dad did not accept him, please legalize so that parents accept me and him.”