Congress fails to give ticket to women candidates

KANPUR: Though Congress party claims that it is always in favour of push women in the society but in recently held elections it failed to allocate ticket to any woman in the ten Assembly seats in the city.
Two other national parties Bharatiya Janata Party and BSP fielded two women candidates. Samajwadi Party also gave tickets to two women and one of them won.
Aruna Kumari Kori, a candidate from Bilhaur seat set a new record of getting maximum 87,804 votes which is 48.83 per cent votes of the constituency and won the seat for SP.Another SP candidate was former MLA Aruna Tomar from Mahrajpur.
BJP had fielded two women, Premlata Katiyar and Geeta Devi from Kalyanpur and Ghatampur seats respectively. Both could not win. Katiyar, who was the sitting MLA, stood as runners-up with 28.46 % votes of the constituency. Geeta Devi stood at fourth place in Ghatampur with 13.24 % votes.
Shikha Mishra and Saroj Kureel were candidates of BSP from Maharajpur and Ghatampur seats respectively. Shikha secured faith of 53,255 voters, which is 24.36 per cent while Saroj Kureel got support from 28.20 % voters of Ghatampur constituency.
Maximum five women candidates contested for Kalyanpur seat and all failed to win. Prem Lata Katiyar secured highest number of votes - 42,406 while Kumari Manju Valmiki of Prajatantrik Bahujan Shakti Dal got only 199 votes. Other women contenders were Renu Kushwaha (Jankranti Party-227) Sangeeta Rani (Lok Janshakti Party, 572 votes) and Archana Vishwakarma (Independent-299).
Next in the list were Kidwai Nagar and Mahrajpur seats. As many as three women candidates recorded their name in the election fray. At Kidwai Nagar, Jameela Begum of Rashtriya Ulema Party was highest vote gainer and she got 237 votes while Shabana Parveen from Rashtriya Viklang Party secured minimum 107 votes.
At Maharajpur, besides Aruna Tomar and Shikha Mishra, Geeta Valmiki was third women contender and she got support of just 160 voters. At Ghatampur, apart from Geeta Devi (BJP) and Saroj Kureel (BSP), Pinki of Republican Party of India was also in the fray and she got 302 votes.
From Kidwai Nagar, Kusum Singh (Lok Dal-153 votes), Jameela Begum (Rashtriya Ulema Council-237 votes) and Shabana Parveen (Rashtriya Viklang Party-107 votes) were in the field and all of them forfeited the security deposits.
Menka Singh Sengar (NCP- 970 votes), Gayatri Devi (Mahan Dal-637 votes), both from Bithoor, Geeta Patel (Janta Dal United-1058 votes) from Govind Nagar and Susheela Nigam-238 votes and Pushpa Devi (Ind-260 votes) from Sisamau constituencies tried their luck in the elections
Arya Nagar was the only constituency from where not a single woman candidate contested.