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In total, six out of 17 times, the city did not elect any woman, while it elected one woman eight times. Three times the city elected two women in Lok Sabha
The politics surrounding the MTPA shows that it was less a product of the women’s movement in India and more of a means to control the expanding population of the country. The Act’s wording and the arguments made in its favour remains to be criticised by Indian feminists.