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The Millennial MP
Outlook
|July 01, 2024
Priyanka Jarkiholi is the first tribal woman to win from an unreserved constituency
“SOME people say women from political families tend to listen to the men of the family, rather than take independent decisions,” Priyanka Jarkiholi said in one of her interviews. She is the daughter of Satish Jarkiholi, the PWD minister and a political heavyweight in Karnataka. Priyanka is one of the three women elected to Parliament from Karnataka and the first tribal woman to win an election from an unreserved constituency, Chikkodi in Karnataka, as a Congress candidate. “But we must prove ourselves by our work,” she said.
This story is from the July 01, 2024 edition of Outlook.
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