 "Haryana assemby, women in haryana assembly, haryana elections, women in haryana, women empowerment, women representation in politics, women in BJP")
The 90-member Haryana Assembly will have nine women — four fewer than the 13 women legislators in the previous term — making this their lowest tally in 14 years. The state saw 104 women candidates contesting from 56 constituencies.
The previous low was in 2000, when four women were voted to the Assembly in a state which until recently had India’s worst gender ratio at birth, and the fourth-highest rate of crimes against women in 2017.
The Manohar Lal Khattar-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 40 seats, clocking a second successive term in Haryana. This is
The previous low was in 2000, when four women were voted to the Assembly in a state which until recently had India’s worst gender ratio at birth, and the fourth-highest rate of crimes against women in 2017.
