by NWMI | Feb 8, 2017 | 2017 Assembly Elections
By Neha Dixit When a reporter asked SP leader and UP CM Akhilesh Yadav and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, in a joint press conference addressed by the two, the reason for not including BSP supremo Mayawati in their alliance against BJP in the upcoming UP Assembly...
by NWMI | Feb 8, 2017 | 2017 Assembly Elections
By Neha Dixit The SP-Congress alliance has been rigorously circulating a picture with SP leader and current UP CM Akhilesh Yadav and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on one side with a coy picture of Modi on the other. The two young leaders have been called...
by NWMI | Feb 8, 2017 | 2017 Assembly Elections
By Nandita Shah and Sakhi Nitin Anita Inspired by the Movie “Suffrage” which showed women’s struggle to get the basic right to vote in UK, young women in Mumbai have come together with a list of demands for candidates of Municipal Elections to be...
by NWMI | Feb 8, 2017 | 2017 Assembly Elections
By Kalpana Sharma For many people in the rest of India, or the “mainland” as people in the Northeast call it, the current standoff in Nagaland over 33% reservation for women in urban local bodies is puzzling. There is precious little news about Nagaland...
by NWMI | Feb 6, 2017 | 2017 Assembly Elections
By Rina Mukherji Women were granted their right to participate in the electoral process under universal suffrage enshrined in the Indian Constitution since 1950. Subsequent years has seen the participation of women in elections as voters, candidates and elected...
