The misogynistic comments voters heard in the run-up to the Tamil Nadu election reflects a political culture that offers token support to women while denying them the basic right to dignity.
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This Was Never About Women
The Women’s Reservation Bill was already passed unanimously in Parliament in 2023. The Women’s Reservation Act came into force on 16 April 2026. What was defeated on 17 April was the Delimitation Bill, which attempted to link women’s reservation to delimitation (redrawing of the boundaries of electoral constituencies) based on data from a 15-year-old Census (2011). The question isn’t whether women deserve more equal representation in electoral politics. It’s who benefits from how it’s being done.
Delimitation is also about reservation of seats for women
By Shikha Mukerjee Some habits die hard. Politics, especially big ticket fights, continues to be conducted between men. On the issue of delimitation of electoral constituencies for elections to the Lok Sabha and state Vidhana Sabha/Soudha (aka Saasana Sabha), the...