Aizawl, December 5 (IANS). Mizoram created history on Monday when for the first time three women candidates were elected to the 40-member assembly.
Zoram People's Movement (ZMP) candidate Lalrinpui won from the Lunglei East constituency and her party colleague and television anchor Beryl Wanneihsangi Aizawi was elected from the South-3 seat.
Pravo Chakma of Mizo National Front (MNF) won from West Tuipui seat.
Lalrinpui and Pravo defeated their male Congress candidates, while Baril Vanneihsangi defeated her MNF opponent.
As the Christian-dominated (87 percent) Mizo society traditionally follows a patriarchal culture, Mizoram's main political parties have rarely nominated women candidates in the Lok Sabha and assembly elections.
174 candidates, including 16 women, contested the November 7 assembly elections, while a total of 209 candidates, including 18 women, contested the last assembly elections in 2018.
136 candidates, including six women candidates, contested the 2013 assembly elections.
No woman candidate won in the 2013 or 2018 elections.
The first woman elected to the legislature in Mizoram (Mizoram was given the status of a Union Territory with a 30-member legislature in 1972) was L. of the People's Conference (PC). Was Thanmavi.
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