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.
Kerala: IUML s First Female MLA Nominee in 25 Years Triggers Debate on Women in Politics
While Noorbina Rashid s candidature is a significant development for her party, the underrepresentation of women in the candidate lists of various parties for the 2021 assembly elections is evident.
Noorbina Rashid, Indian Union of Muslim League s candidate from Kozhikode South constituency for the Kerala assembly elections of April 2021. Photo: Twitter.
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Kozhikode: The last time this author met Noorbina Rashid, the founding general secretary of the Indian Union Women’s League (IUWL), 20 years ago, she was an aspirant for the Kozhikkod-2 assembly seat. “I have already proved my mettle here as a two-time councillor, and I truly deserve a seat for the assembly elections,” Noorbina had said back then. Her eyes sparkled with confidence.
New Delhi [India], March 8 (ANI): On the occasion of International Women's Day, Bollywood star Rani Mukerji spoke her mind about how women should ensure to support more women in every department of film-making in the evidently male-driven Indian film industry.
How ex-officials of Health Ministry carted away 9 assorted vehicles ― Senate
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By Henry Umoru – Abuja
The Senate has discovered that nine assorted vehicles belonging to the Ministry of Health were taken away by some former officials as they were leaving the service of the ministry.
The upper chamber of the National Assembly (NASS) also uncovered how the officials of the Ministry mismanaged N559 million generated from sales of 681,487 units of International Certificate of vaccination (Yellow Card) to the public
The Senator Matthew Urhoghide, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Edo South led Senate Committee on Public Accounts is raising the alarm of how the Ministry spent such amount of money