Tamilisai also accused Kanimozhi’s political party Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) of corrupt activities during the election campaign as she alleged that members of DMK bribed the voters.
CM Mamata Banerjee called an emergency meeting on Saturday afternoon at her Kalighat residence in South Kolkata and she offered to quit.
Of the78 women MPs, a total of seven women MPs belong to Odisha making it the first state ever to have 33% or the largest share of women MPs.
Two women standing in Varanasi put the spotlight on real issues the city faces.
National parties like BJP and Congress fail to field women candidates from the state’s 13 constituencies. Congress has fielded only one woman with Preneet Kaur from Patiala and the BJP has not fielded even a single woman from Punjab.
In Chandigarh 36 candidates are in the fray to win the seat of which nine are women making it to 25% of the overall candidacy. The close second after Chandigarh is Mumbai North East constituency with seven female candidates out of 27 total candidates.
In a marvelous stunt, a Dhanbad-born Yashoda who now lives in Noida, Uttar Pradesh rode her Royal Enfield all the way to her hometown to cast her vote on May 12. The distance between the two cities is almost 1300 and the woman rode the bike all the way to exercise her democratic right to […]
Several states set up pink booths or polling booths exclusively for women with an aim to pull more women to come out of their houses to vote in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. In phase six of elections that concluded on May 12, pink booths in New Delhi which were also staffed by women workers […]
The smear pamphlet that AAP claims is circulating in Delhi about their East Delhi candidate Atishi Marlena has sent political social media into tizzy. Accusations, defensive statements and hashtags are flying across the digital space as everyone is busy speculating who could have written this despicable pamphlet. Was it distributed by her rival candidate? Is […]
India doesn’t come at the top of the list really, when it comes to women’s rights. A day doesn’t go by when you don’t hear about some or the other crime committed against women. Sexism runs so deep in our systems that we’ve come to ignore it and move on from now. No matter how […]
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