The eunuchs at their recent congregation at Gorakhpur decided to make teams that would spread across the 80 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state and campaign for the Samajwadi Party (SP) candidates.
"Whatever be our worth, we want to use our energies to ensure that Mulayam Singh becomes PM," said Sonam Yadav.
On whether the decision to contest against Modi was merely to catch eyeballs, Sonam answered in the negative and said that their candidate Kamla had in the past contested the assembly polls from the city twice and had garnered 20,000-odd votes.
"We might not be in a position to defeat Modi ji but we can certainly put up a fight and eat into his votes," chuckles Sunita, another transgender.
The BJP says Modi's victory from Varanasi "was a foregone conclusion and that the scale would be one of the highest in the state".
