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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicWomen candidates

Topic: women candidates

As IUML appoints Dalit woman to its leadership, a look at Muslim women’s representation in party

Jayanthi Rajan, a local leader from Kerala, Fathima Muzaffer, a councillor from Tamil Nadu, made national asst secys, the first female entrants in Indian Union Muslim League leadership.

Karnataka sees spike of nearly 50% in number of women candidates, but chances of winning remain slim

ThePrint’s analysis of electoral data shows state has seen more women candidates in past 33 yrs, but factors like 'political inheritance & patriarchal mindset' hamper their chances.

What’s the ‘nari shakti’ in 2024 polls? BJP has 1 in 6 women candidates, Congress 1 in 7

BJP & Congress have fallen short of the 33% target envisioned in women’s reservation law, with varying performance across states. Neither party nominated a single woman candidate in Bihar.

Just 25 candidates out of 194 — why Kerala still lags in women’s representation in Lok Sabha polls

Experts cite patriarchal mindset & parties' view that men have more time to devote to campaigning as reasons for low representation.

Just 16% of BJP’s Lok Sabha candidates are women & over half of them are from political families

BJP has announced candidates for 417 Lok Sabha seats of which 68 are women. The party had fielded 45 women candidates in 2009, 38 in 2014, and 55 in 2019.

BJP’s women candidates have outperformed men in most Lok Sabha polls since 1998

Now, with the passing of women's reservation bill and resulting increase in their participation in electoral politics, BJP is likely to further scale up its outreach to women voters.

Why was number of women cadets for NDA fixed at 19 in 2022, same as 2021, SC asks Centre

UPSC notification issued December 2021 says first phase of NDA exam for 2022 scheduled in April. Notification declares 19 women candidates will be chosen out of 400 successful ones.

Unmarried UPPSC candidates ‘harassed’ after list with personal details goes viral

Over 400 candidates for civil judgeship — women & men — are being bombarded with marriage proposals, as are another 400-plus from a 2016 UPPSC exam.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.