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Politics still male dominated in Manipur
IBN Live | Jan 18, 2012, 06.05 PM IST, Imphal:
Manipuri society may be predominantly woman but politics has remained a male bastion for ages. Women voters have outnumbered men since the 1990 polls. But, they have not been able to make their presence felt in the political scenario of this picturesque state in northeast.
Out of a total of 17,40,819 eligible voters, 8,89,497 are women who will decide the fate of 279 candidates, including 14 women aspirants, in the Assembly elections slated for January 28.
Poll officials said there are 14 women candidates of whom 10 are from the four valley districts and the remaining four from the hill districts. The lone woman legislator O Landhoni, who is the wife of Chief Minister M Ibobi Singh, is contesting as a Congress nominee from her native Khangabok seat in Thoubal district.
In contrast, there were just six women candidates in the last Assembly elections. This time 14 women candidates including three from Congress, two from Manipur State Congress Party, one each from BJP, CPM and Trinamool Congress, are in the fray against the six in the previous 2007 polls.
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