Chhattisgarh: Assembly elections

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2018

BJP lost wherever more women voted

Nisreen Naaz, In C’garh, BJP scores duck where more women voted, December 13, 2018: The Times of India

Women voters in Chhattisgarh seem to have drifted away from BJP. None of the ruling party candidates could win from 23 constituencies where turnout of female voters was higher than males.

Congress won by impressive margins in 20 out of these 23 seats, while the remaining three seats went to candidates of the Janata Congress Chhattisgarh-BSP alliance. It is believed that Congress won maximum number of seats in these constituencies because it had promised a ban on liquor in its election manifesto.

The highest turnout of female voters was reported from Kharsia constituency where former IAS officer OP Choudhary contested his maiden polls on BJP’s ticket. Choudhary lost to the sitting Congress legislator Umesh Patel by a margin of 16,967 votes in the constituency which saw around 86.88% turnout among women voters.

Dharamjaigarh (ST) constituency — with the second highest turnout of women voters at 85.91% — also saw Congress retaining the seat. MLA Laljeet Singh Rathia defeated his BJP rival Leenav Birju Rathia by an impressive margin of 40,335 votes.

Similarly, Congress retained eight more assembly seats, including Ramanujganj (ST), Korba, Raipur City Gramin, Sanjari Balod, Dondi Lohara (ST), Gunderdehi, Dongargaon and Khujji where women voters outnumbered men. The party also wrested Lailunga (ST), which saw the fourth highest turnout of women at 84.77%, from BJP with the victory of Chakradhar Singh Sidar.