Aizawl, December 5: For the first time, 3 women have won elections in Mizoram. Mizoram created history on Monday. When 3 women candidates were elected. This is the first time that three women have won the elections and presented their candidature and have given a good example of women’s empowerment to society.
Pravo Chakma of Mizo National Front (MNF) won from the West Tuipui seat.
Zoram People’s Movement (ZMP) candidate Lalrinpui defeated her male Congress candidates, and Mizo National Front (MNF) Pravo Chakma also defeated her male Congress candidates. While Beryl Vanneihsangi won the Aizawl South-III constituency by defeating her MNF rival.
Mizoram is a Christian-dominated area. About 87 percent of people live here who follow Christianity and traditionally Mizo society follows a patriarchal culture. In this patriarchal society, the main political parties of Mizoram have rarely nominated women candidates in the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections.
174 candidates presented their challenge in this election. In which 16 women were also included. The last assembly elections were fought in 2018, in which 209 candidates contested. Of the 209 candidates, 18 were women.
136 candidates contested the 2013 assembly elections. Six women candidates were included.
No woman candidate could win the assembly elections held in 2013 and 2018.
People’s Conference (PC)’s L. Thanmavi was the first woman elected to the legislature in Mizoram. Mizoram was given the status of a union territory in 1972 with a 30-member legislature.
