Women Candidates In 2024 Polls: Daughters Staking Claim To Parents’ Legacy, Actors Eyeing LS, To Veteran MPs   

Women’s participation in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections 2024 is quite low – estimates by the election-watch NGO Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) peg it at 10%. 

Prominent women candidates in the Lok Sabha elections 2024.

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A three-time MP battling her sister-in-law amid a party split with familial overtones, to a debutante looking to stake claim to the illustrious legacy of her father, taking on her chief-minister-brother in her quest to do so.  A cultural activist-cum-businesswoman challenging a four-term MP on his family turf, and a National-Award-winning Bollywood star who is making her poll debut by fighting a late satrap’s heavyweight son. Women’s participation in the ongoing Lok Sabha