The lady writer Kalpana Sharma argues "Why not Aam Aurat Party"? A precise change has been witnessed in the recently concluded Assembly elections, when it seen that the female voters have increased substantially in their individual growth , while there was a fractional difference between male and female numbers of voters in Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan.
In both states, the increase in the percentage of women voting has been remarkable, as in Chhattisgarh, the percentage of women voters was 67.9 % in 2003. This year, just a decade later, it was 77.27 %. Similarly in Rajasthan in 1998, the percentage of women voters was 58.88 %, but this year it jumped to an impressive 75.33 %, marginally higher than the percentage of men voting, 75.03 %. In Delhi, the rise in women voters is even more dramatic, from a low 46.41% in 1998 to 64.69 % in 2013.
While Arvind Kejriwal is getting ready to form the Delhi government with the permission from people, he ought to ask similar question whether he should add another word to the name of his party, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to make it Aam Aurat Aadmi Party (AAAP)?
When AAP is projecting itself as a party with a difference, surely it should recognise that even something surely need to reflect the aspirations of Aam Aurat, in their name as well as the percentage of candidates fighting election.
Even if AAP has not added the word is excused, but still with the lone exception of Shazia Ilmi, it has neglected the equal percentage of women voters of Delhi by not including sufficient numbers of them as their candidates, showing a unwanted gender discrimination for women.
INDIA HONEST wishes the new initiative by AA party must take more rational steps from the very beginning, inviting/forcing others to reciprocate in equal terms.