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By Hepzi Anthony The Mahayuti alliance won on the back of women who voted in large numbers to show their appreciation for women-focussed schemes—but the number of women in the state assembly has dropped. The Mahayuti alliance’s landslide victory in the recent 2024...
By वर्षा सिंह पुरुषों के वर्चस्व वाले खेल कुश्ती की पहलवान विनेश फोगाट हरियाणा विधानसभा चुनाव 2024 में जिंद के जुलाना विधानसभा सीट से पहली बार राजनीतिक मैदान में उतरी हैं। पेरिस ओलंपिक में स्वर्ण या रजत पदक की प्रबल दावेदार विनेश हरियाणा के राजनीतिक दंगल में...
By Varsha Singh Haryana contributed the most number of women to India’s 2024 Paris Olympics contingent – of the 117 athletes who represented the country in the Olympics this year, 24 were from Haryana, and 14 of them were women. However, when it comes to politics, the...
By Parvathi Benu From the first election to the Haryana state assembly in 1967 after the state was carved out of Punjab in 1966 to the one in 2019, a total of 839 candidates have become elected representatives. Of this 839, just 69 women – a measly 8% – have been...
By Ammu Joseph In the lead-up to the 2024 general elections in India, The Hindu’s data team had charted the trajectory of women’s representation in parliaments across the world. According to them, even though women’s representation in political spheres improved in the...
By Rakhee Roytalukdar Desperately seeking women politicians at all levels of the polity in Rajasthan to make the Women’s Reservation Bill a reality Rajasthan has always been known as the land of Rajas and Maharajas, who were acknowledged for their valour and courage....
By Sumita Jaiswal Five women MPs are representing Bihar in the 18th Lok Sabha, winning 12.5% of the seats despite parties not giving women candidates their due Bihar has elected the highest number of women Members of Parliament since the state was bifurcated and...
By Durba Ghosh Only two women, both from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), have made it to the 18th Lok Sabha (LS), one less than in the outgoing house. This time there was a total of 23 female candidates across the eight North Eastern states, which together have 25...
By Sarita Mohanan Bhama Kerala may not have sent any women to Parliament but its women leaders are showing solidarity with one another It’s a bit of an ‘oops’ moment for the long line of academics who have showcased Kerala’s women-propelled welfare climb. The people...
By Shikha Mukerjee West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s handpicked contingent of newly elected women Members of Parliament (MPs), inspired by her, are ready to take the fight into the enemy camp. Of course, it will be easier in the 18th Lok Sabha, in which the...
By Shikha Mukerjee Between hype and reality, the status of women is an expanse of hypocrisy in West Bengal. Abhijit Gangopadhyay, the newly hatched politician who is the Bharatiya Janata Party’s candidate from Tamluk in East Medinipur, was asked by the Election...
By सुमिता जायसवाल बिहार के शिवहर लोकसभा चुनाव में दो महिला प्रत्याशियों के बीच मुख्य मुकाबला है। पहले भी शिवहर लोकसभा क्षेत्र के मतदाताओं ने पांच बार महिला नेत्रियों को चुनकर संसद में भेजा है। मगर आज भी चुनावों में जातिगत राजनीति ही हावी रहती है। भारत में आम चुनाव-...
By Sumita Jaiswal Though two women are in the fray and women leaders have been elected from the Sheohar Lok Sabha seat five times in the past, it is caste that is still pivotal in elections The country has crossed the halfway mark in the 2024 Lok Sabha election, with...
By Rakhi Ghosh The Biju Janata Dal (BJD), the leading regional party in Odisha, has been continuing with its 2019 promise of reserving 33 percent seats for women candidates for Lok Sabha elections. It is also one of the first states in the country to implement 50...
By Rituparna Chatterjee In 2018, at the peak of the #MeToo movement in India, Fairoz Khan, an official from the youth wing of the Indian National Congress party (INC), stepped down after a complaint of sexual harassment was filed against him. At the time, the Congress...
By Durba Ghosh The number of women candidates has been on the decline since 2014, but women voters are turning out in greater numbers than men. Promises galore have been made and benefits doled out but in Assam, even as women outnumber the male voters, the...
By Rakhee Roytalukdar The Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam Bill, popularly called the Women’s Reservation Bill, passed in 2023, has been hailed as a game-changer in India’s political landscape. The long-pending Bill was passed in both houses of Parliament, almost...
By Vanaja C Women make up less than 10 percent of contestants in the 2023 Telangana Assembly elections. Vijaya Reddy is one of them. She is contesting from the Khairatabad constituency of Hyderabad on the Indian National Congress ticket. It is a triangular fight...
By Malini Subramaniam Twenty of the 90 seats in Chhattisgarh will go to the polls in the first phase of the state Assembly election on 7 November. The second phase, for the remaining 70 seats, will be held on 17 November. For now, we will focus on the first phase. Of...
By Ninglun Hanghal Mizoram will go to the polls on 7 November. Of the174 candidates contesting the state elections to secure seats in the 40-member Legislative Assembly, 16 are women – making up just 9 per cent of the total. Like most north-eastern states, Mizoram has...