Relatively high, but an uphill climb for women MLAs in Uttarakhand
In the 70-member House, the number of women contestants has hovered around 7-9% mark; those who get tickets mostly come in via the family door
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In the 70-member House, the number of women contestants has hovered around 7-9% mark; those who get tickets mostly come in via the family door
Karan Mahara says, “We never saw communal tensions (in the state) previously, but things have changed now … People are openly abusing a community, threatening to kill them, and the police and administration are silent.”
Many of the over 4,500 families who have been termed ‘encroachers’ and ordered to leave the Muslim-majority Banbhoolpura area after a legal tussle with the North Eastern Railway possess ownership documents for their homes.
After the party's poor performance in assembly elections in five states, Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi has sought the resignations of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur PCC chiefs.
The BJP on Wednesday named nine more candidates for the Uttarakhand assembly polls, fielding former chief minister BS Khanduri's daughter Ritu Bhushan Khanduri from Kotdwar constituency which was won in 2017 by Harak Singh Rawat, now in the Congress.