MP Mohua Moitra Maiden Speech Goes Viral, Makes 7 Powerful Points
Which side of history do we want to be on. Do we want to be upholders of this Constitution or do we want to be its pall bearers?
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Don’t Want To Fit Into A Politician’s Mould: Chandrani Murmu, Tribal MP
Great leaders choose trailblazers and that’s what Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik did when he reached out to a 25-year-old Chandrani Murmu with an MP ticket from Keonjhar.
For The First Time 78 Women Candidates Become MPs
With a higher number of women contesting for parliamentary seats in the Lok Sabha Election, a lot of our attention is on how these candidates performed.
Modi Govt Has The Highest Number Of Women Union Ministers: Swaraj
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said that the Modi government is the first government since independence to have six women in the cabinet including two women ministers as members of the Cabinet Committee on Security.
Election 2019: How Stardom Fuelled These Women Actors’ Campaigns
Actors joining politics and campaigning largely on their star power and popularity is fairly common in India. Several actors in the past have emerged as successful politicians, like late actor-turned-CM J Jayalalitha in Tamil Nadu and Smriti Irani up north, who is currently a union minister in the NDA government. And like every Lok Sabha […]
Why Is The Water Crisis Not Part Of The Election Agenda In India?
I have just returned from the UN’s SDG Global Festival of Action where Safecity won the award in the Visualiser Category. For those who don’t know, the SDGs are Sustainable Development Goals which the Governments of the world decided to achieve by 2030 for a just, inclusive and sustainable planet. The Festival was meant to […]
Meet Lalthlamuani: First Woman Candidate For Lone Mizoram Seat
For the first time ever in the Indian history, Mizoram will see a woman candidate contesting in the upcoming Lok Sabha election. Lalthlamuani (63) has filed her name as an independent candidate from the Aizwal-West seat reserved for Scheduled Tribe. This also makes her the first Jewish woman ever to contest in the election. In […]
I Demand! Musings Of A 21st Century Indian Female Voter
The onset of the General Elections 2019 in India, has brought with it a whiff of fresh air with the increase in the number of female politicians taking centre stage. Priyanka Gandhi took the country by storm with her unexpected entry while older stalwarts like Mamata Banerjee, Mayawati and others are now looking at cementing […]
Women Must Unite To Vote For Women in Lok Sabha
Shakti – “Political Power to Women” launched nationally in Delhi on February 12th at the Constitution Club of India. Over a 100 invitees attended the event including aspiring politicians, students, women’s groups, civil services aspirants, lawyers and others. Members of Parliament, party spokeswomen, leaders, political commentators and voter data analysts weighed in on how to […]
