Women running for India's parliament are barely a blip in the world's ...
, which began last week and will play out in seven rounds, with results expected on May 23.
“Very few women are asked ,” said Santosh Ahlawat, the only woman MP from the western state of Rajasthan, and a member of Modi’s Hindu nationalist BJP. “Patriarchal systems have been in place for ages, it is not going to be easy to dismantle them without institutional support,” said Lalitha Kumaramangalam, a BJP leader and former chief of a national panel that fights for women’s rights.Women make up 430 million of India’s 900 million eligible voters. In some northern states, such as Himachal Pradesh, with a population of nearly 7 million, neither Congress nor the BJP has nominated a woman candidate.
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