hyderabad sources stated that a record 78 women have been elected to represent the people's aspirations in the Indian parliament. Reportedly this is the highest number ever in the history of Indian elections and they make up to just 14.36% in the Parliament.Furthermore across the party lines, the ruling BJP has sent the most number of women to the Parliament. Meanwhile of the 303 seats the party won single-handedly, 42 are women.
Reportedly among the states, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal sent the maximum number of women to the Parliament, 11 each. Further in Uttar Pradesh, the BJP sent eight women, while the Congress, BSP and Apna Dal (Soneylal) sent one women. Earlier in West Bengal, the Mamata-Banerjee led All india trinamool congress (AITMC) gave 40% representation to women in the candidate list and nine women from the party were elected, while two were from the BJP.
In south, kerala elected one, while Tamilnadu elected three and 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. Moreover in Telangana, for the second time, the state has just one woman MP. Hence out of a total of 443 candidates, just 21 were women, and just six women were fielded from the Congress, BJP and TRS.
