Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Women’s Power in Indian Politics

India is democratic country and this country follow the rules of democracy, by the people, for the people,of the people. Democracy gives opportunity to the people of the country to take part in election of the government and voting for the government is the fundamental right of the citizen of the country. Last month we had elections in our five states Tamil Nadu, west Bengal, Assam and Kerala and Pondicherry and this election got very new kind of results like two women leader emergence for the top post, Mamta Banerjee in Bengal and J Jaylalitha in Tamil Nadu. After this result India got two more women chief minister after Shila Dikshit in Delhi and Mayavati in Uttar Pradesh. Now in our 28 state four states has woman chief minister this shows how Indian women are involved in our politics and day by day number of woman leader are increasing in the politics.

First we will look into the Bengal politics, Bengal is known for the one the prosperous state of our country and it has given lot of intellectuals to our country but now this state is in very bad phase, development one of slowest in the country and in spite of single party ruling this country for more than three decade and people were very frustrate with the government and all they wanted was a change and they got new hope with new generation leader as Mama Banerjee. She has rekindle the ray of new hope for the people of Bengal, She got emphatic majority in the land of one party ruling.Mamta is the first woman chief minister in the west Bengal. It was big change in the Bengal Politics and great hope on Magmata Banerjee to get back lost prosperity in the Bengal and Bengali people. She got the power and needs to deliver as she promised to the people of Bengal. Is it good sign of Indian politics or its mere a hype only time will tell?

Now in Tamil Nadu it was not first time for Jaylalitha to became chief minister she was chief minister earlier. TN politics is different from Bengal. In TN it’s the politics of money power who can spend more will win and who ever promised to give free bee to people like free rice free TV, gold for girl and laptop for the student and even five to six thousand for one vote. Buying vote is not new but the magnitude is very high. All these are people’s money. She also got big majority and ruling party come down to third largest party in the state. This is also a big change in the state politics. She emerge as queen of Chennai. Ruling party has given her very good chance to win by involving the various scams and she has capitalized in a big manner and got thumping victory. She is the one the strong lady in our Indian poltics.This is 3rd time she became chief minister of TN and people of Tamil Nadu has lot of hope from Jayalaltha. First expectation would be to curb the corruption in the state and then to implement all the promises she had during election campaign.

Now we have woman president woman head of ruling party of the country and many woman chief minister and even opposition party also has woman in the top post of the party. If so many women are coming into the top post without women reservation why need women reservation bill for the MP and MLA but this is again debatable and debate will keep going.