CHANDIGARH: Thirteen women legislators have been elected to Haryana assembly , matching the highest count that was recorded before this in the 2014 polls. Of the 13, five are from BJP , giving the party that fielded ten women a strike rate of 50%. Congress 's tally and strike rate (at almost 58%) is higher, with seven women getting elected of the 12 who were given tickets.
The latest election also takes the total count of women elected to the state assembly to 100. Haryana, carved out of Punjab in 1966, held its first election in 1967. Haryana Jammu & Kashmir Haryana Alliance View i Party View Seats: 90 Results Majority: 46 BJP 48 CONG 37 INLD 2 AAP 0 OTH 3 Results : 90 / 90 BJP WON Jammu & Kashmir Alliance View i Party View Seats: 90 Results Majority: 46 JKNC 42 BJP 29 CONG 6 PDP 3 OTH 10 Results : 90 / 90 HUNG ASSEMBLY Source: PValue Among those elected is India's richest woman Savitri Jindal , who is also the only woman to have won as an Independent candidate, and Olympian Vinesh Phogat, who clinched the Julana assembly constituency for Congress after retiring from wrestling earlier this year.
Savitri, the mother of BJP MP from Kurukshetra, Naveen Jindal, won the Hisar assembly seat. Other than Congress and BJP, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) fielded 11 women candidates in Haryana but it drew a blank in the state. Prominent among first-time women MLAs to join the state assembly is Arti Rao, the daughter of Union minister Rao Inderjit Singh.
She won the Ateli assembly seat. Form.
