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&amp;lsquo;My vote matters&amp;rsquo;. This is how the Election Commission is exhorting the electorate &amp;ldquo;in our ageless democracy,&amp;rdquo; in a poster depicting two tribal women from Sikkim. &amp;ldquo;The lines on my face do not matter, the ink on my finger does,&amp;rdquo; it says.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lsquo;My vote matters&amp;rsquo;. This is how the Election Commission is exhorting the electorate &amp;ldquo;in our ageless democracy,&amp;rdquo; in a poster depicting two tribal women from Sikkim. &amp;ldquo;The lines on my face do not matter, the ink on my finger does,&amp;rdquo; it says.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The irony is that the participation of women candidates, especially in the northeastern tribal states, has been negligible. In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, only two women parliamentarians were elected from the Northeast: Sushmita Dev of the Congress from Silchar and Bijoya Chakraborty of the Bharatiya Janata Party from Guwahati, both non-tribal people from Assam. In Manipur, the capital, Imphal has an Ima Keithel (mothers&amp;rsquo; market) run entirely by women. But not a single woman candidate figures in these polls, making the president of Khwairamband Nupi Keithel Semgat Sagat Lup, Radhesana, lament: &amp;ldquo;Everybody talks of women&amp;rsquo;s empowerment, yet they have not fielded any woman candidate.&amp;rdquo; They did have a member of parliament in Kim Gangte way back in 1998, as a Manipur People&amp;rsquo;s Party candidate. She has been with the Communist Party of India, the MPP, the Trinamul Congress, the BJP and now the National People&amp;rsquo;s Party, but the party-hopper is not contesting this year. Yet Manipur has 9,90,960 women voters, 51,034 more than the men.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In Meghalaya, the seat of matriliny, women voters outnumber the men by 19,658. It does have a woman candidate in Tura, the bastion of the late Purno Agitok Sangma. But she happens to be his youngest daughter, Agatha, an MP twice over, piggybacking on Sangma&amp;rsquo;s aura. Lacking her political lineage is an independent candidate in Mizoram, where the 63-year-old Lalthlamuani has created history by being the first woman to contest a parliamentary election. Pitched against five male candidates, she said: &amp;ldquo;I was told by the Lord to contest the polls... I want to uplift the status of women and to make the Almighty God happy with our nation.&amp;rdquo; God willing, she will secure more than the 69 votes polled in her favour in last year&amp;rsquo;s assembly elections! The state has 4,02,408 women voters, outnumbering men by 20,517.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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&lsquo;My vote matters&rsquo;. This is how the Election Commission is exhorting the electorate &ldquo;in our ageless democracy,&rdquo; in a poster depicting two tribal women from Sikkim. &ldquo;The lines on my face do not matter, the ink on my finger does,&rdquo; it says.<br />
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&lsquo;My vote matters&rsquo;. This is how the Election Commission is exhorting the electorate &ldquo;in our ageless democracy,&rdquo; in a poster depicting two tribal women from Sikkim. &ldquo;The lines on my face do not matter, the ink on my finger does,&rdquo; it says.<br />
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The irony is that the participation of women candidates, especially in the northeastern tribal states, has been negligible. In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, only two women parliamentarians were elected from the Northeast: Sushmita Dev of the Congress from Silchar and Bijoya Chakraborty of the Bharatiya Janata Party from Guwahati, both non-tribal people from Assam. In Manipur, the capital, Imphal has an Ima Keithel (mothers&rsquo; market) run entirely by women. But not a single woman candidate figures in these polls, making the president of Khwairamband Nupi Keithel Semgat Sagat Lup, Radhesana, lament: &ldquo;Everybody talks of women&rsquo;s empowerment, yet they have not fielded any woman candidate.&rdquo; They did have a member of parliament in Kim Gangte way back in 1998, as a Manipur People&rsquo;s Party candidate. She has been with the Communist Party of India, the MPP, the Trinamul Congress, the BJP and now the National People&rsquo;s Party, but the party-hopper is not contesting this year. Yet Manipur has 9,90,960 women voters, 51,034 more than the men.<br />
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In Meghalaya, the seat of matriliny, women voters outnumber the men by 19,658. It does have a woman candidate in Tura, the bastion of the late Purno Agitok Sangma. But she happens to be his youngest daughter, Agatha, an MP twice over, piggybacking on Sangma&rsquo;s aura. Lacking her political lineage is an independent candidate in Mizoram, where the 63-year-old Lalthlamuani has created history by being the first woman to contest a parliamentary election. Pitched against five male candidates, she said: &ldquo;I was told by the Lord to contest the polls... I want to uplift the status of women and to make the Almighty God happy with our nation.&rdquo; God willing, she will secure more than the 69 votes polled in her favour in last year&rsquo;s assembly elections! The state has 4,02,408 women voters, outnumbering men by 20,517.<br />
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As one Manipuri woman put it, 'Everybody talks of women&rsquo;s empowerment, yet they have not fielded any woman candidate'

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Ironic lack of women candidates in northeastern states -Sudipta Bhattacharjee

-The Telegraph As one Manipuri woman put it, 'Everybody talks of women’s empowerment, yet they have not fielded any woman candidate' ‘My vote matters’. This is how the Election Commission is exhorting the electorate “in our ageless democracy,” in a poster depicting two tribal women from Sikkim. “The lines on my face do not matter, the ink on my finger does,” it says. The irony is that the participation of women candidates, especially in the northeastern tribal states, has been negligible. In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, only two women parliamentarians were elected from the Northeast: Sushmita Dev of the Congress from Silchar and Bijoya Chakraborty of the Bharatiya Janata Party from Guwahati, both non-tribal people from Assam. In Manipur, the capital, Imphal has an Ima Keithel (mothers’ market) run entirely by women. But not a single woman candidate figures in these polls, making the president of Khwairamband Nupi Keithel Semgat Sagat Lup, Radhesana, lament: “Everybody talks of women’s empowerment, yet they have not fielded any woman candidate.” They did have a member of parliament in Kim Gangte way back in 1998, as a Manipur People’s Party candidate. She has been with the Communist Party of India, the MPP, the Trinamul Congress, the BJP and now the National People’s Party, but the party-hopper is not contesting this year. Yet Manipur has 9,90,960 women voters, 51,034 more than the men. In Meghalaya, the seat of matriliny, women voters outnumber the men by 19,658. It does have a woman candidate in Tura, the bastion of the late Purno Agitok Sangma. But she happens to be his youngest daughter, Agatha, an MP twice over, piggybacking on Sangma’s aura. Lacking her political lineage is an independent candidate in Mizoram, where the 63-year-old Lalthlamuani has created history by being the first woman to contest a parliamentary election. Pitched against five male candidates, she said: “I was told by the Lord to contest the polls... I want to uplift the status of women and to make the Almighty God happy with our nation.” God willing, she will secure more than the 69 votes polled in her favour in last year’s assembly elections! The state has 4,02,408 women voters, outnumbering men by 20,517. Please click here to read more.