Only 7.8% women candidates in Assam electoral battle
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Sujit Chakraborty ( IANS) |
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Guwahati, April 4 : Only 7.8 per cent women candidates are among the total 946 contestants in fray for the 126-member Assam Assembly elections, leading to discontent among female activists and writers.
According to the state s Chief Electoral Officer Nitin Khade, of the total 946 candidates, 74 are women while, out of the overall 2,33,74,087 voters, 1,15,50,403 are females.
He said out of the 33,530 polling stations set up for the three phases (March 27, April 1, April 6) of the polls across the state, 1,351 are all women managed.
The Bodoland People s Front has approached the Supreme Court seeking extension in time for completion of election to the Tamulpur Assembly constituency in Assam scheduled to be held on 6th April.
The Trinamool Congress s charge was led by chief minister Mamata Banerjee and her nephew, who is also an MP, Abhishek Banerjee.
In his successive rallies, the prime minister attacked the TMC government over appeasement politics , while raking up the issue of ground-level corruption, including the alleged irregularities in Amphan relief.
West Bengal CM and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee address an election campaign rally at Baruipur in South 24 Parganas.
On the other side, the chief minister took on the leaders who left her party to join the BJP ahead of the elections, urging people to vote against the traitors . She also attacked the BJP-led government at the Centre over rising fuel prices and the state of the economy.
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The Congress, in 2001, was the last mainstream party to win here
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Artists perform during Prime Minister Narendra Modi s election in Assam’s Baksa district on April 3, 2021. | Photo Credit:
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The Congress, in 2001, was the last mainstream party to win here The BJP has pulled out all the stops to penetrate Bodoland, a region that has been out of bounds for mainstream political parties for 15 years.
The Congress was the last mainstream party to win two of the 12 seats across the Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR), comprising Baksa, Chirang, Kokrajhar and Udalguri districts, in 2001. It refrained from contesting any seat in the region in the next election because of its alliance with the Bodoland People’s Front (BPF), which befriended the BJP ahead of the 2016 election before returning to the Congress camp in 2021.