The AICC general secretary’s ‘proposal’ may or may not be a game changer for the Congress in Uttar Pradesh but even in other states Congress and other political parties will now be under pressure to put up many more women in elections than it has been doing so far. That in itself will make a major difference in future. Among 193 countries ranked on the basis of percentage of elected women representatives in national parliaments, India ranked 148th as of June this year. Rwanda topped the table with 61 per cent, followed by Mexico (48.2 per cent), Sweden (47.3 per cent) and the US (23.6 per cent), India was behind even Pakistan (20.2 per cent). While the global average of women in the lower chambers and unicameral parliaments is 25.8 per cent, the percentage for India is 14.4 after the 2019 general election, when the number of women elected to the Lok Sabha, 78, was the highest ever.
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