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Hyderabad: A record 78 women have been elected to represent the people’s aspirations in the Indian parliament. This is the highest number ever in the history of Indian elections. However, they make up to just 14.36 per cent in the Parliament.
Across the party lines, the ruling BJP has sent the most number of women to the Parliament. Of the 303 seats the party won single-handedly, 42 are women.
Among the states, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal sent the maximum number of women to the Parliament, 11 each. In Uttar Pradesh, the BJP sent eight women, while the Congress, BSP and Apna Dal (Soneylal) sent one women. In West Bengal, the Mamata-Banerjee led All India Trinamool Congress (AITMC) gave 40 per cent representation to women in the candiate list and nine women from the party were elected, while two were from the BJP.
Down south, the picture is not appreciable. Kerala elected one, while Tamil Nadu elected three. In Andhra Pradesh, the YSR Congress Party swept both the Assembly and Lok Sabha polls. In the 25 seats, the party won 22 seats and four women MPs have been elected. Out of the four, three made their debuts and won the elections and the fouth MP Vanga Geetha is a Rajya Sabha MP.
In Telangana, for the second time, the state has just one woman MP. Out of a total of 443 candidates, just 21 were women, and just six women were fielded from the Congress, BJP and TRS.
A full list of the women state wise:
Andhra Pradesh
YSRCP: Chinta Anuradha (Amalapuram)
YSRCP: KV Satyavathi (Anakapalli)
YSRCP: Goddeti Madhavi (Araku Bapatla)
YSRCP: Venga Geethaviswanath (Kakinada)
Assam
BJP: Queen Oja (Guwahati)
Bihar
BJP: Rama Devi (Sheohar)
JD(U): Kavita Singh (Siwan)
LJP: Veena Devi (Vaishali)
Chandigarh
BJP: Kirron Kher (Chandigarh)
Chhattisgarh
Congress: Jyotsna Charandas Mahant (Korba)
BJP: Renuka Singh Saruta (Sarguja)
BJP: Gomati Sai (Raigarh)
Delhi
BJP: Meenakshi Lekhi (New Delhi)
Gujarat
BJP: Darshana Jardosh (Surat)
BJP: Dr. Bharati Dhirubhai Shyal (Bhavnagar)
BJP: Rathva Gitaben Vajesingbhai (Chhota Udaipur)
BJP: Shardaben Patel (Mahesana)
BJP: Poonamben Hemantbhai (Jamnagar)
BJP: Ranjanben Dhananjay Bhatt (Vadodara)
Haryana:
BJP: Sunita Duggal (Sirsa)
Jharkhand
BJP: Annapurna Devi (Kodarma)
BJP: Gita Kora (Singhbhum)
Karnataka
BJP: Shobha Karandlaje (Udupi Chikmaglur)
Independent: Sumalatha Ambareesh (Mandya)
Kerala
Congress: Remya Haridas (Alathur)
Madhya Pradesh
BJP: Himadri Singh — Shahdol
BJP: Pragya Singh Thakur — Bhopal
BJP: Riti Pathak — Sidhi
BJP: Sandhya Rai — Bhind
Maharashtra
BJP: Poonam Mahajan — Mumbai North Central
BJP: Bharati Pawar — Dindori
BJP: Raksha Khadse —Raver
Independent: Navneet Rana — Amravati
NCP: Supriya Sule — Baramati
Shiv Sena: Bhawana Gawali — Yavatmal-Washim
BJP: Pritam Gopinathrao Munde — Beed
BJP: Heena Vijaykumar — Nandurbar
Meghalaya
NPP: Agatha Sangma Tura — Meghalaya
Odisha
BJD: Pramila Bisoyi — Aska
BJD: Chandrani Murmu —Keonjhar
BJD: Manjulata Mandal —Bhadrak
BJD: Sarmistha Sethi — Jajpur
BJD: Rajashree Mallick — Jagatsinghpur
BJP: Sangeeta Kumari — Bolangir
BJP: Aparajita Sarangi — Bhubaneswar
Punjab
Akali Dal: Harsimrat Kaur Badal —Bathinda
Congress: Preneet Kaur — Patiala
Rajasthan
BJP: Diya Kumari — Rajsamand
BJP: Ranjeeta Koli — Bharatpur
BJP: Jaskaur Meena — Dausa
Tamil Nadu
Congress: Jothimani S — Karur
DMK: Kanimozhi — Thoothukudi
DMK: Thamizhachi Thangapandian — Chennai South
Telangana
TRS: Kavitha Malothu —Mahabubabad
Tripura
BJP: Pratima Bhoumik — Tripura West
Uttar Pradesh
Apna Dal (Soneylal): Anupriya Singh Patel —Mirzapur
BJP: Rita Bahuguna Joshi —Allahabad
BJP: Smriti Irani —Amethi
BJP: Dr. Sanghmitra Maurya — Badaun
BJP: Hema Malini — Mathura
BJP: Keshari Devi Patel — Phulpur
BJP: Niranjan Jyoti — Fatehpur
BJP: Rekha Verma — Dhaurahra
BJP: Maneka Gandhi — Sultanpur
BSP: Sangeeta Azad — Lalganj
Congress: Sonia Gandhi — Rae Bareli
Uttarakhand
BJP: Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah — Tehri Garhwal
West Bengal
AITMC: Aparupa Poddar — Arambagh
AITMC: Dr. Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar —Barasat
AITMC: Nusrat Jahan Ruhi — Barsirhat
AITMC: Satabdi Roy — Birbhum
AITMC: Mimi Chakraborty — Jadavpur
AITMC: Mala Roy — Kolkata Dakshin
AITMC: Mahua Moitra — Krishnanagar
AITMC: Sajda Ahmed — Uluberia
AITMC: Pratima Mondal — Joynagar
BJP: Debasree Chaudhuri —Raiganj
BJP: Locket Chatterjee — Hooghly
