Besides Bilkis Bano, Congress MLC nominees include NS Boseraju, K Govindaraj, Vasant Kumar, Ivan D'Souza and Jagdev Guttedar. BJP has nominated CT Ravi, N. Ravi Kumar and MG Mule.
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.
While BJP has patted itself on the back over women’s reservation bill, data shows its posts of power are mostly held by men. Leaders, however, insist ‘BJP has always stood for women’.
The recommendations for China by the UN were made alongside findings on Germany, Iceland, Sao Tome and Principe, Slovakia, Spain, Timor-Leste and Venezuela.
On Monday, the Congress unveiled ‘Na Nayaki’, a scheme meant to empower women. But women leaders say that the party has consistently sidelined women in favour of male leaders.
Researchers from Boston and Columbia universities studied Meghalaya's matrilineal tribes to find that women are more politically active than men when wealth passes from mother to daughter.
On 29 May 1951, Jawaharlal Nehru defended adding 'reasonable restrictions' to Article 19, arguing that free speech must be balanced with national security and unity.
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
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