This time, swords are drawn between AAP, bjp and congress to win the delhi Assembly elections. While women are at the center of the manifesto of all three. From Aam Aadmi Party's 'Mahila Samman Rashi Yojana', Congress's 'Pyaari Didi Yojana' and BJP's Mahila Samridhi Yojana are focused on women. On the contrary, when it comes to giving tickets to women, all three parties lag far behind. Out of 210 candidates of the three parties on 70 seats of delhi, only 25 women have been given the right to contest elections. bjp and AAP have fielded the maximum number of 9 women candidates each. While congress has fielded 7 women candidates in the political arena. Many of the women candidates come from strong political families.
Who fielded women candidates from where?
Aam Aadmi party had fielded seven women candidates in the 2020 elections. This time nine women have been given tickets. Among these, cm Atishi has been nominated from Kalkaji, Rakhi Bidlan from Madipur, Pramila Tokas from rk Puram, Dhanwati Chandela from Rajouri Garden, Bandana Kumar from Shalimar Bagh, pooja Balyan from Uttam nagar, Sarita Singh from Rohtas nagar, Preeti Tomar from Tri nagar and Surinder Setia from hari Nagar.
Two new names among the women candidates of AAP are pooja Balyan and Anjana Parcha. pooja Balyan is the wife of mla naresh Balyan who is contesting from Uttam Nagar. naresh Balyan was recently arrested on charges of having alleged links with gangster Kapil Sangwan.
At the same time, bjp has given ticket to rekha Gupta from Shalimar Bagh, Poonam Sharma from Wazirpur, Deepti indora from Matiala, urmila Kailash Gangwal from Madipur, Shweta saini from Tilak nagar, Neelam Pehalwan from Najafgarh, Shikha Rai from Greater Kailash, Priyanka gautam from Kondli and Kumari Rinku from Seelampur. Congress's Okhla candidate Ariba Khan's father is former mla Asif Mohammad Khan. Another candidate of the party, Alka Lamba is a popular face, while former mla Ragini nayak was the spokesperson of AICC. Apart from this, the congress has included the names of Aruna Kumari, sushma Yadav, Harbani Kaur and pushpa Singh. congress has given ticket to Ariba Khan from Okhla, Alka Lamba from Greater Kailash, Ragini nayak from Wazirpur, Aruna Kumari from Narela, sushma Yadav from Najafgarh, Harbani Kaur from Janakpuri and pushpa Singh from Mehrauli.
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