TN Parties Contend to Woo Women Voters Ahead of Polls, Not a New Tactic in the State
3 years, 10 months ago

TN Parties Contend to Woo Women Voters Ahead of Polls, Not a New Tactic in the State

News 18  

As Tamil Nadu gears up for polls on April 6, political parties have engaged in a one upmanship contest to corner a significant vote bank in the state — women. Just around International Women’s Day on March 8, both the Dravidian parties DMK and the AIADMK announced high-ticket incentives targeting women. Now we have to see who helps us and only then vote.” Political analysts point out that while Jayalalithaa may have owned the women voter segment with her sops — and the fact that she held sway as a politician in what was clearly one of the most hostile environments for a woman to survive — it was her mentor MG Ramachandran and his arch-rival Karunanidhi who were pioneers in cultivating such a segment in the first place. N Sathiya Moorthy, a political analyst said, “Wooing women voters goes back particularly to the MGR era, the free education and noon meal scheme among others also benefited rural women.

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Amid Deluge of Schemes Targeting the Female Voter, Has Anything Changed for Indian Women in Politics?
1 month ago

Amid Deluge of Schemes Targeting the Female Voter, Has Anything Changed for Indian Women in Politics?

The Hindu  

Published : Dec 11, 2024 10:39 IST - 11 MINS READ After a disappointing performance in Maharashtra in the June Lok Sabha election, the prospects were bleak for the BJP-led Mahayuti alliance in the Assembly election in November. Maharashtra has 4.6 crore women voters, of which 2.34 crore were already beneficiaries of the scheme by the time the State went …

After Jharkhand poll debacle, BJP says women voters were wooed away by cash transfer scheme
1 month, 1 week ago

After Jharkhand poll debacle, BJP says women voters were wooed away by cash transfer scheme

The Hindu  

The large turnout of women voters and a State scheme to provide financial aid to women were among the factors that led to the BJP’s resounding defeat in the recent Jharkhand Assembly election, according to an internal review of the party’s poll debacle conducted over the weekend in Ranchi. Cash transfer for women Party sources said that during the meeting, …

TN Women Voters Outnumber Men in 207 Assembly Seats
2 months, 2 weeks ago

TN Women Voters Outnumber Men in 207 Assembly Seats

New Indian Express  

Women voters in Tamil Nadu are steadily outnumbering men in all Lok Sabha and Assembly constituencies, with women having a significant lead in many areas. According to the draft electoral rolls, women have outnumbered men in 207 Assembly constituencies and in the rest, they will be on the top in a few years.

India’s Modi wooed women voters. Did the strategy work in the election?
7 months ago

India’s Modi wooed women voters. Did the strategy work in the election?

Al Jazeera  

The pitch was clear — the results mixed for Modi’s BJP. Critics point out that semiformal and informal sectors dominate when it comes to India’s labour force – offering far fewer protections to workers, especially women. Overall, India’s female labour participation ratio has fallen in recent years – meaning that fewer women are even seeking employment. Women’s Reservation Bill: Passed …

Missing women MPs in the new Lok Sabha
7 months, 1 week ago

Missing women MPs in the new Lok Sabha

Hindustan Times  

In the video, Sanjna Jatav is dancing to Rajasthani folk music. Her priorities are clear, she tells me on the phone: “Higher education for women who otherwise drop out because they aren’t allowed to attend co-ed institutions.” Despite the well-deserved euphoria of individual victories, the new Lok Sabha looks depressingly like the old Lok Sabha in one significant way: The …

Delhi’s women voters weigh the pros and cons of election promises
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Delhi’s women voters weigh the pros and cons of election promises

The Hindu  

Twenty-one-year-old Sonia, who is still on the job hunt despite recently completing courses offering specialisations in both computers and salon services, says that her vote on Saturday will go to the party that will ensure financial independence for women. “We keep hearing about schemes to empower women, like Aam Aadmi Party’s promise to give ₹1,000 to women every month. In …

It’s a myth that the clout of the BJP has grown in T.N., says Thamizhachi Thangapandian
8 months, 4 weeks ago

It’s a myth that the clout of the BJP has grown in T.N., says Thamizhachi Thangapandian

The Hindu  

The Opposition’s claims that the BJP’s clout has been growing in Tamil Nadu, have no substance, the DMK’s South Chennai candidate Thamizhachi Thangapandian has said. On the charge that in Sholinganallur, South Chennai’s biggest assembly constituency, people are upset even today that there is no access to basic amenities, like drinking water, sewage system, she clarified that Chief Minister M. …

Chennai South Lok Sabha Elections 2024: DMK stronghold set to witness triangular face-off
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Chennai South Lok Sabha Elections 2024: DMK stronghold set to witness triangular face-off

India TV News  

Chennai South Lok Sabha Election 2024: Chennai South is one of the Lok Sabha constituencies in Tamil Nadu. In the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, the ruling DMK, AIADMK, and BJP are poised for a fierce battle, with two prominent women leaders and a former MP vying for victory. DMK Vs AIADMK Vs BJP Incumbent DMK MP Tamizhachi Thangapandian will face-off …

Only 3 women candidates out of 21 in DMK: Thamizhachi Thangapandian defends her party
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Only 3 women candidates out of 21 in DMK: Thamizhachi Thangapandian defends her party

New Indian Express  

But gender equality is still a work in progress. Recently, AICC spokesperson Shama Mohamed openly expressed her disappointment over the Congress party’s Lok Sabha candidates list for Kerala as it featured only one woman candidate. Neglect in Tamil Nadu too In Tamil Nadu, the ruling DMK has only three women candidates in 21 seats, while the AIADMK has fielded only …

'Misinterpreted': BJP's Khushbu Sundar on 'Rs 1,000 alms for Tamil women' remark
10 months ago

'Misinterpreted': BJP's Khushbu Sundar on 'Rs 1,000 alms for Tamil women' remark

India Today  

Actor-turned-politician Khushbu Sundar on Wednesday reacted to the controversy surrounding her recent comments on DMK-led Tamil Nadu government's welfare scheme of giving Rs 1,000 to women heads of every family in the state. The women's wing of DMK has been protesting across the state after Sundar called the Tamil Nadu government's scheme of giving Rs 1,000 monthly to women heads …

Womenfolk in T.N. can’t be deceived by reducing LPG price by ₹100 before polls: DMK MP Kanimozhi
10 months ago

Womenfolk in T.N. can’t be deceived by reducing LPG price by ₹100 before polls: DMK MP Kanimozhi

The Hindu  

Reducing the price of LPG refill by ₹100 prior to the Lok Sabha election wouldn’t attract womenfolk in Tamil Nadu and the BJP should stop indulging in such tactics, said DMK MP Kanimozhi at Dindigul on Saturday, March 9, 2024. Speaking at a public meeting in Dindigul to mark the World Women’s Day celebration by the DMK women’s wing, she …

The ballot revolution led by women voters
1 year, 1 month ago

The ballot revolution led by women voters

Hindustan Times  

Let’s count what we do know. Analysis by this newspaper finds that women accounted for less than 12% of the candidates fielded by the two major national parties, the BJP and the Congress in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, and Mizoram. From free bus fares to subsidised LPG cylinders, from cash handouts to fixed deposits, parties, otherwise so stingy about …

More women are voting, but not many in the House
1 year, 1 month ago

More women are voting, but not many in the House

Hindustan Times  

Women in Rajasthan scored a no-fuss hattrick in the just-concluded assembly polls by turning out in higher numbers than men after achieving the same feat in the 2013 and 2018 elections. The 2014 national election was a watershed when the gap in turnout was reduced to less than 1.5 percentage points, building on which women surpassed men in 2019 for …

Nari Hai to Mumkin Hai: How women voters propelled BJP to victory
1 year, 1 month ago

Nari Hai to Mumkin Hai: How women voters propelled BJP to victory

Firstpost  

In the three Hindi heartland states of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, the BJP went all out to woo women voters. Women voted in large numbers and put their faith in the saffron party “Behnon aur bhaiyon,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a post on X after election results in four states – Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan Chhattisgarh, and Telangana …

Politics and sexism: What have parties really done on women empowerment?
1 year, 3 months ago

Politics and sexism: What have parties really done on women empowerment?

India Today  

“The problem is that when a woman is attacked, she gets attacked for her character, but never for her policymaking,” Union minister and BJP leader Smriti Irani. There were ludicrous claims of a tunnel running between her and a senior leader's home, writes journalist Nidhi Sharma in her recently published book ‘She, The Leader -- Women in Indian Politics’. Also, …

Why more women voted for the BJP in 2022 elections | Analysis
2 years, 10 months ago

Why more women voted for the BJP in 2022 elections | Analysis

India Today  

The story of women voting in India has added one more puzzle for social scientists to decipher. In many states too, the party gained some advantage with women voters - the trend was very visible in the 2020 Bihar and 2021 Assam assembly elections. Very simply, learn from leaders such as Mamata Banerjee and Nitish Kumar, and make concerted outreach …

Behind BJP’s Big Uttar Pradesh Win: The Silent Women Voters
2 years, 10 months ago

Behind BJP’s Big Uttar Pradesh Win: The Silent Women Voters

News 18  

Behind the Bharatiya Janata Party’s big win in Uttar Pradesh for a historic second term, which no government could achieve in the past 37 years, is the women voter which seems to have consolidated behind the party over the free rations given for the past two years and the improved law and order. Even the promise of free electricity made …

For the women vote, go beyond tokenism
2 years, 10 months ago

For the women vote, go beyond tokenism

Hindustan Times  

A welcome trend in Indian politics in recent years is the steady rise in the participation of women in elections, reflected in their turnout figures outpacing men in both national and state polls – the latest being the recently concluded five state elections. This phenomenon has been marked by intensifying discussions around the women vote, political parties targeting women as …

Mind The Gap | Wooing the Indian woman voter
3 years, 1 month ago

Mind The Gap | Wooing the Indian woman voter

Hindustan Times  

Everybody loves the woman voter Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s announcement of a ₹1,000 monthly stipend to women above 18 in poll-bound Punjab if his Aam Aadmi Party is elected to power signals the rise and rise of the woman voter. The Congress’s Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s commitment to field 40% of women candidates in next year’s Uttar Pradesh election is …

The emerging vote bank that every political party wants to tap
3 years, 2 months ago

The emerging vote bank that every political party wants to tap

Live Mint  

Last week, the Congress pledged to field women in 40% of the seats in the upcoming Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh. During the 2017 Uttarakhand Assembly elections, women’s voter turnout was 7.6 percentage points higher than men’s, the highest gender advantage in favour of women voters among all states. Women voters in Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Manipur, and …

Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin, Where Are the Women in Your Cabinet?
3 years, 8 months ago

Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin, Where Are the Women in Your Cabinet?

The Quint  

A total of 12 female candidates were voted into power this Assembly elections – seven from the DMK and five from the AIADMK. The elected representatives in the DMK-led alliance includes Varalakshmi Madhusoothan, V Amulu, Kayalvizhi Selvaraj ), Sivakami Sindhari ), A Tamilarasi ), Geetha Jeevan and Vijayadharani. It is important to note that less than a tenth of contestants …

Assembly Elections 2021: No dearth of women cadres, but parties fail to ensure gender equality in lead roles
3 years, 9 months ago

Assembly Elections 2021: No dearth of women cadres, but parties fail to ensure gender equality in lead roles

Firstpost  

We are in 2021 and India is gearing up to celebrate its 75 years of its independence, but gender equality has taken a step back. While there is no dearth of women karyakartas in major political parties, the clear denial of tickets to contest elections is a huge entry barrier for women in politics. Except for Mamata Banerjee led the …

In Tamil Nadu, One Poll Promise Has Got Everyone Talking—A Monthly Payment to Homemakers
3 years, 9 months ago

In Tamil Nadu, One Poll Promise Has Got Everyone Talking—A Monthly Payment to Homemakers

News 18  

Promises and counter-promises are par for the course during election season. Whether it is ‘freebies’ or social schemes, Tamil Nadu has been ahead of the curve over the last few decades—think the free bicycle scheme for SC/ST students, launched in the state way back in 2001-02. The committee’s report said, “… unless, therefore, the home worker is considered as much …

Tamil Nadu Elections: Decoding BJP Strategy to Make a Saffron Mark on Dravidian Turf
3 years, 9 months ago

Tamil Nadu Elections: Decoding BJP Strategy to Make a Saffron Mark on Dravidian Turf

News 18  

The Tamil Nadu election in 2021 is being keenly watched not only because it is the first such state-level exercise after the demise of J Jayalalithaa of the ruling AIADMK and M Karunanidhi of the opposition DMK, but also because it puts to test the BJP’s ambition to gain political space on the hitherto-hostile Dravidian turf, where the deaths of …

To Win Bengal Polls, BJP Pulls Out All Stops to Woo Women Voters Away from Mamata
3 years, 9 months ago

To Win Bengal Polls, BJP Pulls Out All Stops to Woo Women Voters Away from Mamata

News 18  

That women voters likely form the biggest support base of West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and her party, the Trinamool Congress, has been analysed threadbare. “We will launch Mission Atmanirbhar Mahila with a corpus of Rs 5,000 crore to help women become economically independent,” he said, also promising a 33 per cent quota for women in government jobs. Besides …

Tamil Nadu Parties In A Bind To Corner Women Votes As Contest Heats Up
3 years, 10 months ago

Tamil Nadu Parties In A Bind To Corner Women Votes As Contest Heats Up

News 18  

As Tamil Nadu gears up for polls on April 6, political parties have engaged in a one-upmanship contest to corner a significant vote bank in the State, women. It is probably an indication that Jayalalithaa’s stranglehold on the women vote base may have disappeared with her, forcing the AIADMK to get into a tight contest with the DMK for their …

BJP banks on women voters
5 years, 2 months ago

BJP banks on women voters

The Hindu  

The Bharatiya Janata Party is confident of an electoral victory on the basis of the strong female voter base in Maharashtra. Senior party functionaries in charge of the polls in the State said most of party’s campaign in the past month has been driven towards attracting female voters, who form a strong base for the party’s electoral bank. Even their …

Women on top
5 years, 5 months ago

Women on top

Deccan Chronicle  

From Indira Gandhi one of the world's first female Prime Ministers to former president of Indian National Congress Sonia Gandhi and the recently deceased Sushma Swaraj, former Minister of External Affairs, India has certainly had some illustrious leading ladies. One of these was politics, although several women in our own country broke through these bastions to make their presence felt …

Women to power Kusumavati Shivalli to a win?
5 years, 7 months ago

Women to power Kusumavati Shivalli to a win?

Deccan Chronicle  

Hubballi: Congress leaders are hoping to retain the Kundgol Assembly seat and attribute the record voter turnout of 82.42% to the large number of women exercising their franchise in favour of party candidate Kusumavati Shivalli. They are also confident that the party candidate Kusumavati Shivalli will get more than 70,000 votes against 65,000 votes secured by the party in the …

Women's representation in Lok Sabha polls: On election-eve, Tamil Nadu's abysmal numbers leave much to be desired
5 years, 8 months ago

Women's representation in Lok Sabha polls: On election-eve, Tamil Nadu's abysmal numbers leave much to be desired

Firstpost  

The only Indian state with a female Gross Enrolment Ratio at college level of around 41 percent, which is nearly double that of its closest contender, has under eight women running for the 17th Lok Sabha The only Indian state with a female Gross Enrolment Ratio at college level of around 41 percent, which is nearly double that of its …

Women voters now matter much more than before: Prannoy Roy
5 years, 8 months ago

Women voters now matter much more than before: Prannoy Roy

The Hindu  

Veteran journalist and psephologist Prannoy Roy recently co-authored a book, ‘The Verdict: Decoding India’s Elections’, with Dorab R. Sopariwala. And invariably in Lok Sabha elections, each State votes differently and the final result in an election is the combination of ‘landslides’ and results at the State level that could counteract each other. In U.P., even if the vote shares are …

Long March of Indian Women
5 years, 9 months ago

Long March of Indian Women

Deccan Chronicle  

For the 17th Lok Sabha election, major political parties have again shied away from fielding women. All political parties ignore women foot soldiers who have dedicated 20-30-40 best years of their lives for party work such as mobilisation on the issues of regional or national importance; door-to-door campaigning for party rallies; public meetings; demonstrations; jail bharo; picketing; day-to-day activities of …

Women simply don’t count in Elections 2019
5 years, 9 months ago

Women simply don’t count in Elections 2019

Deccan Chronicle  

Despite all the noises. Not that good looks should be held against a woman who wants to enter politics — but to peddle a woman’s physicality with no reference to her abilities is, to my mind, most demeaning. Losing in Amethi — that too, to a woman, will as good as seal his fate in politics and serve as a …

‘Paisa, Polls and Politics’ Part III: Many High-Profile Women Netas, But 9 of 10 Legislators Still Men
5 years, 11 months ago

‘Paisa, Polls and Politics’ Part III: Many High-Profile Women Netas, But 9 of 10 Legislators Still Men

News 18  

Powerful women are no strangers to the India’s political landscape. In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, a female BJP MP received almost 61 per cent of her party’s total funds, while 15 per cent of it came from ‘other sources’ including individual donations, firms, organisations. However, the higher proportion of party funds for the female MPs could be misconstrued as …

Representation, resistance, solidarity: What I learnt from attending a women's caucus
6 years, 1 month ago

Representation, resistance, solidarity: What I learnt from attending a women's caucus

Firstpost  

Once Indian women get their foot in in politics, everything changes for them — and for women voters who are usually ignored by male politicians By Nisha Susan Last Saturday, I met and listened to more politicians than I have in my whole life and ended the day smiling. India ranks 148 among 190 countries around the world, as far …

Women pin hopes on BJP, Mahakutami for tickets
6 years, 3 months ago

Women pin hopes on BJP, Mahakutami for tickets

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Women aspirants pin their hopes on the Mahakutami and the BJP to get a fair share in nominations as final lists are being prepared. In the first list, there were only four women candidates even reducing the proportion of serving legislators for a repeat nomination which has become a contentious issue among party workers. Women were more mature and …

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