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Delhi Polls 2025: Fewer Criminal Cases, More Graduates, Soaring Assets
The Daily Guardian
|February 10, 2025
The eighth Delhi Assembly will have fewer women members but a higher number of lawmakers with graduate degrees, according to a report.
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The eighth Delhi Assembly will have fewer women members but a higher number of lawmakers with graduate degrees, according to a report. The report by PRS Legislative Research found that five women had been elected to the assembly, the results of which were announced on Saturday, representing 7 per cent of the House. Four women MLAs are from the BJP while Atishi is AAP's only woman member in the House.
In 2020, eight women were elected. The BJP swept to power in Delhi after more than 26 years, winning 48 of the 70 assembly seats. AAP won 22 seats while the Congress drew a blank in the polls held on February 5.
The percentage of MLAs with graduate degrees has risen to 38 per cent in the eighth assembly from 34 per cent in the seventh. MLAs with postgraduate degrees and above remain unchanged at 26 per cent.
About 61 per cent of the newly-elected MLAs listed politics or social work as their profession, compared to 67 per cent in the previous assembly.
The number of MLAs who listed their profession as business also registered an increase from 29 per cent in the seventh assembly to 49 per cent in the eighth.
The average age of the members is 52, the report found.
This story is from the February 10, 2025 edition of The Daily Guardian.
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