It took Nagaland 45 years to elect its second woman parliamentarian, and the state is yet to elect any woman in the 60-member Assembly.
It took Nagaland 45 years to elect its second woman parliamentarian, a social enigma that manifests the existence of patriarchy in a different form in the state where female participation in decision making otherwise is much higher than the national average.
The wait for a woman parliamentarian ended last Thursday when BJP-nominee S Phangnon Konyak got elected to the Rajya Sabha unopposed. Before her, Rano M Shaiza was the only woman from the state who could make it to Parliament, often called the temple of democracy. The Late Shaiza was elected to the Lok Sabha as an independent candidate in 1977.
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