Women Reservation

For decades social and political activists have been vociferously demanding women representation in State and Central legislature. If one looks at the number of women candidates who were in fray in recent assembly elections in Rajasthan, MP, Chhattisgarh, Jammu & Kashmir, Mizoram and Delhi, the argument that political parties are disinterested in giving tickets for women appears to be fallacy. For example, for the 200 seats in Rajasthan there were 154 women candidates and only 28 managed to get elected. Similarly, of the 230 seats in Madhya Pradesh, there were 226 women candidates and only 13 were elected. Same was the case with J&K and Chhattisgarh where only 3 and 11 women candidates respectively got into the legislature. Even in Mizoram all the women who stood for election to the 40-member assembly lost the race to their male rivals. Mizoram is the only Indian state where women voters outnumber men.

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The question arises here is that, why women candidates could not win in the state assembly elections?

I think this bleak picture is due to reckless joining by women in political parties without having any political understanding. The need of the hour is not the super women, but those who have clear vision about India with political understanding. Only then the campaign for women reservation could get edge resulting in adequate representations in Parliament and State Assemblies.