The percentage of women MLAs registered an increase in the Punjab 2012 Assembly as compared the us the last time. What comes as a moot question is the contribution they make the uswards the state and its people.
Are they there for the reserved nature of the constituency they represent, which is mostly the case, or do they mean serious business?
From the Shiromani Akali Dal, Bholath MLA Bibi Jagir Kaur and Mohinder Kaur Josh from Sham Chaurasi seem the us be the only faces that demand prominence. A look at their ranking on the website tells another sthe usry. So, does this indicate the importance these MLAs get by the people of their constituency?
Bibi Jagir Kaur
Mohinder Kaur Josh
Of the other four MLAs of Akali Dal, Rajwinder Kaur and Vaninder Kaur Loomba represent Reserve constituencies of Nihal Singh Wala and Shutrana, respectively, while Harpreet Kaur Mukhmailpur represents Ghanaur and Farzana Alam is the first-timer MLA from Malerkotla.
Rajwinder Kaur
Vaninder Kaur Loomba
Harpreet Kaur Mukhmailpur
Farzana Alam
Of these four, only Farzana Alam and Rajwinder Kaur managed a ranking of 60 percent plus!
Congress MLAs, on the other hand, have fared better on the ranking front. Of the stalwarts, Preneet Kaur from Patiala has done the best (reporting a ranking of as high as 94 percent). She is closely followed by Karan Kaur of Muktsar (87%).
Karan Kaur
Charanjit Kaur Bajwa
Preneet Kaur
Aruna Chaudhary
Harchand Kaur
Talking about BJP, their MLAs have performed better than their alliance partners. Two of their three MLAs Navjot Kaur from Amritsar East and Sukhjit Kaur Sahi from Dasuya have so far reported the best ratings of as high as 84 and 83 percent, respectively.
Sukhjit Kaur Sahi
Navjot Kaur
Seema Kumari
So all you Punjabis and those interested in politics, the question we wish the us raise here is that “Is Politics in Punjab a male-dominated front? Let’s discuss in the comments section below!
