MUMBAI: Women representatives from
Maharashtra to the
Lok Sabha
increased from six to eight this election season—a 33% rise in the number of women
MPs
as against the 2014 Lok Sabha.
The new additions are Independent candidate from Amravati Navnit Ravi Rana, who defeated
Shiv Sena veteran leader Anandrao Adsul, and Dr Bharati Pawar, who contested the elections on a BJP ticket from Dindori and won. In the 2014 elections, Pawar was the NCP candidate and lost. This time, the party did not give her a ticket and so she switched allegiance.
In Mumbai North Central, BJP’s Poonam Mahajan defeated Priya Dutt of the Congress for the second time from what was once a Congress bastion. NCP’s Supriya Sule won from Baramati for the third time and this time improved her winning margin going up to 1.5 lakh as against 70,000 in the last election.
The other repeat winners are Raksha Khadse from Raver, who is the daughter-inlaw of BJP leader from north Maharashtra Eknath Khadse; Pritam Munde from Beed, the daughter of late Gopinath Munde; Dr Heena Gavit from Nandurbar, the daughter of former state minister Vijay Kumar Gavit; and Bhavana Gawali of Shiv Sena who has won for the third time from Yavatmal-Washim. All of them belong to families with a political background. Mahajan and Munde are first cousins, while Sule is the daughter of NCP chief and former CM Sharad Pawar.
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