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Gender parity is a long way off in India’s political and electoral arena with political parties remaining reluctant to field more women in elections. In the ongoing multi-phase elections for four state assemblies and one union territory, parties have fielded just a handful of women in the electoral contest.
Of the 3,559 candidates vying for 238 seats in the Tamil Nadu State assembly, just 380 (11 percent) are women. The ruling All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) has just 14 women (8 percent) among its 171 candidates in the fray. There are only 11 (6.3 percent) women among the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam’s (DMK) 173 contestants and of the 25 candidates fielded by its ally, the Congress, just one is a woman. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the AIADMK’s partner, has three women among its 20 candidates.
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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan receives the first dose of COVID vaccine in Thiruvananthapuram. (File photo)
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has tested positive for coronavirus. The chief minister had taken the first dose of vaccine against Covid-19 on March 3. Vijayan is currently asymptomatic. Currently, the chief minister is asymptomatic. But he is likely to be shifted to the Kozhikode Medical College, news agency PTI quoted CMO sources, as saying.
His daughter Veena Vijayan and son-in-law P A Mohammed Riyas had earlier tested positive.
CM Vijayan had extensively travelled across the state as part of the electioneering for the Assembly polls which was held on April 6. The counting of votes will be held on May 2.
Congress leader files poll code breach complaint against Vijayan
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Mumbai: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan ats Mumbai Collective , in Mumbai on Feb 2, 2020. (Photo: IANS) Image Source: IANS News
Thiruvananthapuram, April 8 : Congress Kannur assembly seat candidate Sateeshan Pacheni on Thursday filed a complaint with the Chief Electoral Officer against Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan for violating the model code of conduct.
Pacheni, also is also the district Congress chief, said that soon after Vijayan cast his vote on April 6 at a booth in Kannur, he said thatt all gods, including Sabarimala s Lord Ayyappa, rooting for the CPI-M-led Left Democratic Front.
Political parties keep fingers crossed over poll outcome
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UDF, LDF hope to make gains at rival’s cost
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UDF, LDF hope to make gains at rival’s cost
Both the main fronts, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI-M]-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) and the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) are keeping their fingers crossed over the poll outcome in 13 Assembly constituency segments in Kozhikode district.
Leaders of political parties are trying out different methods from the booth-level on calculating which way the election will turn out on May 2. “The LDF will make a clean sweep. We are confident of retaining all our sitting seats. And we hope to capture the Kuttiyadi and the Kozhikode South seats as well,” P. Mohanan, district secretary of CPI(M), said.
LDF had come to power then
The Left Democratic Front (LDF) had come to power when polling touched an all-time high of 80.53% in the State in the 1987 Assembly polls and 77.35% in the 2016 polls.
Since 1957, only the Congress-led alliance had been able to ensure continuity in power and that too way back in 1977. In the elections held after the Emergency, the Congress-led United Front was voted to power and K. Karunakaran became the Chief Minister.
But, the fifth Assembly witnessed several political moves and three other Chief Ministers A.K. Antony, P.K. Vasudevan Nair and C.H. Mohammed Koya. The Assembly was dissolved in 1979 and President’s rule imposed in the State.