NEW DELHI: Tripura Lok Sabha MP Pratima Bhowmik is among the 16 first-time members of Parliament to take oath as a minister in the Union Council of Ministers on Wednesday.
A BJP member since 1991, Bhowmik’s induction is a clear indication that BJP is preparing to retain the state it won for the first time in 2018, given that Chief Minister Biplab Deb is facing some dissent from within. TMC’s victory in Bengal and Mamata Banerjee’s attempt to revive the party’s fortunes in Tripura is seen as threat.
Post its Bengal victory, TMC has aggressively started campaigning in Tripura, prompting BJP to ensure that its strength on the ground is not diluted.
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Number of women MLAs in Assam Assembly declining
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It’s is six this time against a high of 14 in 2011
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It’s is six this time against a high of 14 in 2011
The number of women MLAs in the 126-member Assam Assembly has been declining from a high of 14 in 2011.
Six women were elected to the House this time three from the BJP, two from the Congress and one from the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP).
Ajanta Neog (BJP), who won the Golaghat seat, is the most experienced among the six, having represented the constituency four times as a Congress candidate since 2001. She is the wife of former Congress leader Nagen Neog who was killed along with eight others in an ambush by the banned United Liberation Front of Asom in 1996.
Women lawmakers declining in Assam Assembly
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Sujit Chakraborty ( IANS) |
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Guwahati, May 4 : The number of women legislators in the 126-member Assam Assembly has been declining from a high of 14 in 2011, eight in 2016 and only six this time.
In all 74 women candidates (7.8 per cent) among the total of 946 aspirants contested the recently held three-phase Assam Assembly elections and only six of them entered into the Assembly three are of the ruling BJP, one of Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and two of opposition Congress.
In the previous Assam Assembly elections in 2016, 91 women candidates were in the fray with eight of them elected to the 126-member House while in 2011, 85 women had tried their electoral fate and 14, highest so far in the House, secured the success.