While the national parties Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) along with the Bharat Rastra Samithi (BRS), a regional party in Telangana, claim credit for the enactment of the Women’s Reservation Act-2023, requiring one-third of all seats in the Lok Sabha and State legislative assemblies to be allocated to women, a closer examination of their allotment of MP tickets to women candidates in the Lok Sabha polls reveals a lack of sincerity in promoting women’s representation in legislative bodies.
These three prominent parties have collectively allotted tickets to only six women out of the total 17 Lok Sabha seats in the State, which is a mere 12% of the overall 51 nominees from these parties.
While the Congress party has nominated Patnam Suneetha Reddy from Malkajgiri, Kadiyam Kavya from Warangal, and Atram Suguna from Adilabad, the BJP has fielded D. K. Aruna from Mahabubnagar and Kompella Madhavi Latha from Hyderabad. The BRS has allotted the ticket to Mahabubabad sitting MP Maloth Kavitha once again.
