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The predetermination of Mayors and Chairpersons successful 116 Municipalities and 7 Municipal Corporations successful Telangana has marked a decisive infinitesimal for women’s governmental participation, with women emerging arsenic a ascendant unit crossed municipality section bodies.
From municipal corporations to municipalities, women not lone benefited from statutory reservations but besides translated electoral accidental into governmental authority, reshaping the enactment illustration successful municipality Telangana.
Out of the 7 municipal corporations that went to polls successful the State, 3 mayoral posts were reserved for women, and significantly, each the women mayors beryllium to the Congress, underlining the party’s overwhelming dominance.
Caste-wise too, the mayoral posts reflected a wide societal spread. Out of the 7 Mayor posts, 3 were reserved for women, and 1 each for the Scheduled Caste (SC) and the Scheduled Tribes (ST) categories. Among these, women held 2 unreserved (women) and 1 BC (women) mayoral seats.
The astir striking interaction of women’s information was disposable astatine the municipality level. Of the 116 chairpersons, 30 were successful the unreserved category, 16 were successful the BC, 7 were nether SC, and 2 were successful the ST categories. Among these, astatine slightest 60 were held by women, 55 done women-reserved seats and 5 further women elected successful the wide seats truthful far. This meant that women occupied much than fractional of each municipality chairpersonships, a uncommon milestone successful Telangana’s civic politics.
Combining corporations and municipalities, Telangana has 123 caput posts (mayors and chairpersons). Women relationship for astatine slightest 63 of these, successful summation to astatine slightest 11 deputy-level posts (including lawman mayors and vice-chairpersons). However, this fig mightiness summation arsenic 11 municipalities volition spell for elections tomorrow.
Party-wise successful each categories, the Congress dominated the scenery with 86 caput posts, followed by Bharat Rashtra Samithi with 18, the Bharatiya Janata Party (2), Independents (4), CPI (1) and AIFB (1).
Importantly, 100% women politician posts went to the Congress. The Congress secured mayoral posts successful Mahabubnagar, Mancherial, Nalgonda, Nizamabad and Ramagundam, portion the BJP won Karimnagar, and the Communist Party of India captured Kothagudem successful confederation with Congress.
Yet, among these, lone Congress-led corporations saw women astatine the top. Districts specified arsenic Nalgonda, Yadadri Bhongir, Khammam and Sangareddy reported peculiarly precocious numbers of women heading municipalities.
