Mizoram Elections goes Pink with 40 "All Women" Polling Stations

Guwahati: As the northeastern state of Mizoram where female voters outnumber male voters goes to poll on Wednesday for the Assembly elections 2018, there will be 40 Polling stations managed by all-women polling officials and security personnel. These pink polling stations' built for women voters only are locally known as ' 'Dingdi' after a wild flower which is found in abundance in the state commonly used in Mizo poetry to depict beautiful women.

Every Assembly Constituency will have one Pink polling station. Each of such pink polling station will have one presiding officer, three polling officials and sufficient security personnel, state election department officials said, adding that these all-women pooling booths have been created to encourage more women, voters, to come forward and vote.

As Patriarchy was stringent in Mizo society, this was a welcome step, a women activist said. In a state where women voters outnumber male counterparts by 19.399, their representation in the Assembly has been surprisingly low. even this year, among the total 209 candidates, only 15 are women. Among these, six are from BJP and five from ZoramThar, an evangelist party floated by Zaichhawna Hlawndo.

Noteworthy that though the number of female candidates is just 15 yet this is the largest number of women that has ever been fielded in the state

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