Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh elections: Only 18 women among BJP’s 162 candidates
On October 9, BJP released the list of 162 candidates for the assembly elections to be held in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh. Among these, the number of female candidates is 18 (i.e. 11.11 percent).
Let us tell you that recently the Narendra Modi government led by the ruling BJP at the Center has passed the Women’s Reservation Bill and made it a law, in which there is a provision to reserve one-third seats for women in the Lok Sabha and Legislative Assemblies. However, it has been said that delimitation should be done before implementing this law.
Due to the limitation condition, nothing can be said with certainty as to when this law will come into effect. But, if the parties give one-third of the tickets to women, then automatically their number in the legislature will increase to one-third. But, parties do not seem to be in favor of giving them ‘right to reservation’ in this manner.
How many women candidates did BJP field on October 9?
Rajasthan Assembly Elections 2023: On October 9, BJP released the fourth list of candidates for Madhya Pradesh. There are names of 57 candidates in it. There are only five women candidates.
Rajasthan Assembly Elections 2023: There are 200 assembly seats in Rajasthan. On October 9, BJP announced 41 candidates in the first list. There are 4 women among them.
Chhattisgarh Assembly Elections 2023: There are nine women in the second list of 64 BJP candidates in Chhattisgarh.
Rajasthan Assembly Elections 2023: Of the four women MPs, one is an independent who lost the last election. In Rajasthan, Santosh Meghwal from Sujangarh, Diya Kumari from Vidyadhar Nagar, Rajkumari Jatav from Hindaun and Krishna Katara from Bagidaura have got tickets. Santosh Meghwal had contested the last elections as an independent from Sujangarh and lost. Diya Kumari is an MP. Rajkumari has been a Jatav MLA.
According to the website of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly, there are a total of 27 women MLAs in the 15th Legislative Assembly. Of these, 10 are from BJP and 15 from Congress.
condition of Madhya Pradesh
Talking about Madhya Pradesh, the names of Manisha Singh from Jaisinghnagar, Kumari Meena Singh Mandve from Manpur, Krishna Gaur from Govindpura, Gayatri Raje Pawar from Dewas and Malini Laxman Singh Gaur from Indore-4 are in the list.
Krishna Gaur is the daughter-in-law of the sitting MLA and late Chief Minister of the state Babu Lal Gaur. Meena Singh became MLA for the first time in 1996 and has also been a minister in 2003. She also became MLA in 2008, 2013 and 2018. When Shivraj government was formed in 2020, he was again made a minister.
Nine out of 64 women in Chhattisgarh, two of them MPs
In the list released on October 9, women candidates from Chhattisgarh include MP Renuka Singh (Bharatpur-Sonhat), Udheshwari Paikra (Samri), Raimuni Bhagat (Jashpur), MP Gomti Sai (Pathalgaon), Suniti Satyanand Rathiya (Lailunga), Shiv Kumari Chauhan ( Sarangarh), Sanyogita Singh Judev (Chandrapur), Ranjana Deependra Sahu (Dhamtari) and Lata Usendi (Kondagaon).
Let us tell you that Sanyogita’s husband Yudhveer Singh Judev had been a BJP MLA. Yudhveer took charge of the legislature, taking over the legacy of his father Dilip Singh Judev. He was an MLA in 2008 and 2013, but BJP played its bet on Sanyogita in 2018. In 2018, Sanyogita had lost the election from Chandrapur.
