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| Fair sex gets unfair deal in tickets | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Nov 5: Had not the Congress, the National Conference and the PDP, opposed the bill introduced in the Assembly last year, there would have been a large number of women candidates in the field during the ongoing poll process in Jammu and Kashmir. The bill was tabled by the Panthers Party general secretary Harsh Dev Singh seeking reservation for women in the Assembly election.
While moving the bill Harsh Dev Singh had stated that under section 49 of the State Constitution, Assembly seats were reserved for Scheduled castes. He had pleaded that this section of the Constitution needed to be amended so that under this section seats were reserved for women also.
The result is that all the mainstream political parties have demonstrated gender bias. The Congress has so far cleared the name of Kanta Andhotra from Basholi. The BJP had initially decided to field two women candidates but it has dropped Nirmala Sharma from Kalakot and selected Shilpa Verma only from Bishna simply to gain added mileage because she happened to be the wife of Kuldeep Verma who committed suicide while agitating against the Amarnath Shrine land row.
If the PDP ultimately clears the name of Mehbooba Mufti she would be the third women candidate in the field. The National Conference is yet to oblige any woman by giving mandate to her. The Panthers Party has taken the lead by giving mandate to four women, one each in Poonch, Marh, Kishtwar and one in the Kashmir valley.
The gender bias has been there right from 1951 when the state had gone to the polls first time .Later, the Government added two seats for women to be nominated to the Assembly but it has not contributed to women empowerment when over 45 per cent of the total population comprises women. |
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