The state of Uttar Pradesh has population density and diversity, highest number of Rajya Sabha seats, 912 women for every 1000 men and memories of Badaun which linger. What it also has are women who have exercised their voting rights in a democracy to heavily influence the future of our country. In India’s most populous […]

A 35-year-old woman from Pakistan, who is not allowed to cast her vote there as she belongs to a persecuted community, managed to exercise her franchise for the first time in the Punjab elections this time. Tahira Maqbool had got married to a man hailing from Gurdaspur’s Qadian town in 2003 and got her Indian citizenship in. April 2016.

Gujarat, which will go to polls either at the end of this year or early next year, has few first-time women voters. In the 18-19 age bracket, women voters only form 37 per cent of the 4.48 lakh first-time voters. According to the records by Election Commission, compared to 2.81 lakh male voters, only 1.66 lakh […]

Women who voted for the first time in the Goa assembly polls today won pink teddy bears. About 40 women-only booths — decorated with pink balloons and manned by security officials clad in pink — were set up to draw women voters.

Bihar elections are at its swing at the moment. The most prominent parties BJP- led NDA and Nitish Kumar led grand alliance have pitched their campaigns aggressively in front of the state and now they are eagerly waiting for the result of their hard work. In all this commotion, one aspect has stood out and […]