Delhi Assembly elections: 6 women win; Alka Lamba takes Chandni Chowk

By: PTI | New Delhi | February 10, 2015 7:37 pm

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Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) women workers celebrate the party's landslide victory in
Delhi state assembly elections, in Nagpur, Maharashtra on Tuesday. PTI
Six women leaders have managed to secure a place in the 70-member Delhi
Assembly, a meagre eight per cent even as fairer sex accounts for almost 45 per
cent of the population in the national capital the move from Congress to Arvind
Kejriwals Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) went very well for Alka Lamba.

While as many as 66 women candidates were in fray, all the six winners, who have
made it to the Assembly, belong to the Aam Aadmi Party. They are Rakhi Birla,
Bandna Kumari, Saritha Singh, Alka Lambha, Pramila Tokas and Bhavna Gaur.
Interestingly, the three women candidates elected to the Delhi Assembly in 2013
polls were also from AAP -Birla, Bandana Kumari and Veena Anand.
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Birla, who was the Cabinet minister for Women and Child, Social Welfare and
Languages in Delhi during AAPs 49-day regime, contested from Mangol Puri
constituency in West Delhi and defeated Congress Raj Kumar Chauhan by 22,699
votes.
Elected as an MLA from the Shalimar Bagh constituency in the 2013 Assembly polls,
Bandana Kumari emerged victorious by defeating another woman candidate, BJPs
Rekha Gupta.
Alka Lamba, a former leader of Congress-affiliated National Students Union of India
(NSUI) who had joined AAP in 2013, won from Chandni Chowk constituency,

defeating yet another women candidate of BJP, Suman Kumar Gupta, by more than
18,000 votes.
Another women who emerged victorious was Parmila Tokas, an independent
municipal councillor. She was fielded from RK Puram constituency, where the party
had pitted Shazia Ilmi in the last elections. Ilmi left AAP last year and ultimately
joined hands with BJP just before the Delhi elections.
AAPs student wing president Sarita Singh won from the Rohtash Nagar Assembly
constituency with a margin of 7,874 votes.
Bhawna Gaur, who contested from Palam constituency in South-West Delhi,
defeated BJPs Dhram Dev Solanki by 30,849 votes.
While women safety, which is a key concern in the national capital, featured widely
in various parties poll manifestos, when it came to fielding women candidates, the
they did not opt for them.
A total of 19 women candidates were fielded by three major political parties in the
contest -AAP, BJP and Congress.
BJP had given tickets to maximum number of seven women candidates including its
Chief Ministerial nominee Kiran Bedi, former Congress leader Krishna Tirath and
youth face Nupur Sharma.
All the six women candidates of AAP emerged victorious.
The least number of women candidates was fielded by the Congress which had
given tickets to just five.
The prominent names in the list included Kiran Walia who was contesting from New
Delhi Assembly seat against Arvind Kejriwal and President Pranab Mukherjees
daughter Sharmishta Mukherjee from Greater Kailash constituency.