Gradual decline in Assam women MLAs continues, just six emerge victorious in 2021
The six winners included three from the BJP, two from the Congress and one from the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP)
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These 4.76% of the legislators in the 126-member House will represent 49.30% women voters (File photo of woman voter in Assam| ANI)
Express News Service
GUWAHATI: There has been a steady decline in the number of elected women representatives in the Assam Assembly in recent years.
Altogether 74 women had contested the Assembly elections, the results of which were declared on Sunday, and only six emerged victorious.
GUWAHATI: A group of 15 peasants’ activists, who joined the Delhi farmers’ protests against the three farm laws under the aegis of Sanyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), concluded a marathon campaign in four legislative constituencies in the agrarian belt on the south of Brahmaputra in Kamrup district on Sunday, and urged people to reject the BJP-led NDA in the state.
This zone has been a nerve centre of farmers’ activism since the days of communist revolutionary Bishnu Prasad Rava.
The group during the campaign, which was started on March 1, urged voters to reject the “anti-farmer” BJP and its key ally AGP in the elections by distributing pamphlets, holding street corner meetings and campaigning in shops and commercial establishments against farm bills and price rise.