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Rajasthan Assembly Elections 2018: Tribals urge parties to ensure food security -Mohammed Iqbal

-The Hindu Urge parties to frame policies to preserve MUNDRI: For southern Rajasthan’s tribals, the Assembly Elections are an opportunity to press their demand with the contesting political parties for framing policies that ensure food security, even while helping them preserve indigenous practices, and assist in forming new linkages with the local health and financial services. The region’s tribal population wants political representatives to make interventions to help the community improve resource management...

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Single women seek monthly pension -Jagriti Chandra

-The Hindu A forum representing single women has prepared a charter of demands pitching for enhanced budgetary allocation so that schemes such as monthly pension and benefits for care-givers can be framed for them. Their call comes at a time five States prepare to vote during Assembly Elections and when there are nearly six months left for general elections. The National Forum for Single Women’s Rights (NFSWR) has also demanded that the...

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MP, Rajasthan Under BJP Have Steered the Destruction of Workers' Security -Praneta Jha

-Newsclick.in Unbridled exploitation of workers under the supervision of BJP governments has led to widespread anger and discontent, which is likely to be reflected in the Assembly polls. While Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan are gearing up for Assembly Elections, the two BJP-ruled states have also been at the forefront of actively overseeing the worsening  condition of industrial workers. Besides administering meagre rates of minimum wage, the two states have introduced a slew of...

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Madhya Pradesh Assembly Elections 2018: Note ban woes rankle in farm belt -Sandeep Phukan

-The Hindu Congress aims to tap into ryots’ anger. Simrol (Madhya Pradesh): Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s repeated attacks on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over demonetisation at election meetings in Madhya Pradesh led the Prime Minister to declare that Mr. Gandhi’s party is yet to revive from the “shock” inflicted by the note ban. “Only the Congress and one family are still crying because what they had pilfered for four generations was lost in...

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What will it take for political parties to increase women's representation in electoral politics? -Namita Bhandare

-Hindustan Times There’s no shortage of talent. For over two decades, women have occupied 33% of seats in panchayats and done so well that states like Bihar bumped up their quota to 50%. Exactly 101 years after the 19th Amendment granted American women suffrage, a record 116 women, including the first Muslim, the first Native American and the youngest ever, were voted to the US Congress. India, too, has the highest number...

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