No female representation in Nagaland Assembly, yet again

DNA Saturday, 3 March 2018 ()
No female representation in Nagaland Assembly, yet againNagaland Assembly will remain to be a male bastion as all the five women who were contesting in the state lost, with one of them getting only 17 votes.

Women have always found it tough to survive in politics in the tribal-dominated Northeastern state. No woman has ever won an Assembly election in Nagaland since 1963 when the...
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