Women‘s Participation in Electoral Politics in India: A critical study through the general elections

Women’s empowerment as a phenomenon is not something absolutely new. The recent involvement levels of women in formal politics in India reveal the change in the ground level. Women participation in politics has always been an issue regarding modern-day political experts. Conventionally, they show a below average performance to their male counterparts for no faults of theirs. However, the incessant under-representation of womanhood in lawmaking bodies and within the rank and file of political parties counterbalances the crucial gains made in the people-driven feminization of electoral politics in India. Within a brief historical context identifying the early stages of women’s electoral participation in India, the article presents a time series analysis of women’s voting patterns. The continuous failure of the governments in New Delhi which is unable to pass the Women’s Reservation Bill is categorized as the most expensive proof of the law maker’s lack of momentousness attitude towards the issue.The general election of 2014 rebelled this to a level and replaced as breaking ground for women involvement. They registered their presence in line with the male voters. The crux of the paper is to systematically find out the presence of women in the general elections of Indian history. This paper will be relying on the secondary data for the statistics.