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In six decades, the percentage of women MLAs in the Kerala Assembly has never exceeded 10%
The state with some of the best human development indicators for women in India fails to ensure enough representation for them in its legislature. The state has more than 50% women s representation in local governance institutions. | Arun Sankar / AFP
Kerala’s first Member of the Legislative Assembly was a woman.
Rosamma Punnoose, 44 years-old when Kerala elected its first post-Independence Legislative Assembly in 1957, was elected from the Devikulam constituency in the Idukki district in southeast Kerala. The first MLA to take oath, she became the
protem speaker and went on to administer the oath of office to other MLAs on April 10, 1957.
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March 18, 2021 00:51 IST
Though women outnumber men in the Kerala’s electoral pool, no political front has ever pushed for a fairer representation of women within party structures
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Though women outnumber men in the Kerala’s electoral pool, no political front has ever pushed for a fairer representation of women within party structures
While Kerala has been consistently maintaining its top slot in the Human Development Index, there is still no change in the apparent under-representation of women in politics. Even the 2021 figures remain dismal as the lists announced by all the three major fronts include just 40 women, only 9% of the total 420 candidates.
Alappuzha, a long-time Left bastion, has a batch of freshers fighting the Assembly battle
As the cradle of the Communist movement in the State, elections in Alappuzha are always a matter of prestige for the Communist parties.
From the first-ever Assembly polls of 1957 to the 2016 elections, Communist parties [back in 1957 and 1960 there was only Communist Party of India (CPI)] had fielded one or more big names in each of the Assembly polls in Alappuzha district. In 1957, it gave the ticket to T.V. Thomas and T.K. Varghese Vaidyan, the latter was one of the founding leaders of the Communist Party of India in Kerala.