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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 Rakhee Roytalukdar Is there anything known as women’s vote in Indian elections? Women voters are generally not rigid when casting their votes. Sanjay Kumar of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) had written an article in Mint some years ago :...
By Nayantara Narayanan The poll promise that women in Karnataka are most likely to see fulfilled is that of free transport—to a greater or lesser extent. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) have offered the lowest of hanging...
By Revathi Siva Kumar As the Karnataka Assembly election fevers rise with the summer temperatures, a heartwarming improvement in women’s voting patterns is visible. The uptick was identified through secondary data and explored through a primary survey by a 2023...
By Durba Ghosh The heat and dust of the recently concluded Assembly elections in the three North Eastern states of Meghalaya, Nagaland and Tripura are yet to settle down, but what is already clear is the poor representation of women in the new legislatures. Of the...
By Durba Ghosh The recently concluded Tripura Legislative Assembly elections have brought forth a skewed gender narrative. On the one hand, enthusiastic and politically conscious women voters have outnumbered their male counterparts in exercising their franchise...
By Aheli Moitra For representational purpose only. Women queue up to vote during the 2018 election in Nagaland. Nagaland votes on February 27 Nagaland got its first ever female Rajya Sabha MP, Phangnon Konyak, in 2022. She is the second woman from Nagaland to ever...
By Janaki Srinivasan (Guest Post) When campaigning for the assembly elections in Punjab began in earnest over two months ago, it seemed like gender issues in general and gender inequality in particular would finally become an issue in the electoral battle. These...
By Meher Ali It is not as if the public does not care. In 2017, Climate Trends, a communications company, conducted a survey in six cities in Uttar Pradesh to find out whether the public in the most populous state cared about climate change. The United Nations...
By Geeta Pandey The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, recently said he was confident that women in Uttar Pradesh would vote for the BJP because, under his party’s rule, the state had become a place that was “safe and full of opportunities for women”. But how real is that...
A photo essay by Sarita Mohanan Bhama At least 73.58 per cent of the total 2.74 crore voters in Kerala exercised their franchise during the recent state Assembly elections, going by a preliminary assessment conducted just before polling drew to a close at 7 pm on 6...