But a victory in state elections does not mean Rahul Gandhi’s Congress Party will be able to turn the tables on the ruling BJP in next year’s national polls.
After the Narasimha Rao govt reserved a third of the seats in local bodies for women in 1992, Karnataka was the first state to implement it. Then, as CM from 1994 to 1996, Deve Gowda ordered 33% reservation for women in govt jobs, and then 50% quota for them in jobs in educational bodies and panchayat bodies