The Congress party which has provided 40 per cent of the tickets to the women candidates in the upcoming assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh could muster courage to field only three women in its first list of 53 candidates for Uttarakhand.

In the list released by the Congress party on late Saturday night tickets were given to Godavri Thapli from Mussoorie, Mamta Rakesh from Bhagwanpur and Meena Sharma from Rudrapur. There were a large number of women contenders from many assembly constituencies but the party has given tickets to only three. In comparison to Congress the BJP has given tickets to six women in its first list of 59 candidates released on Thursday. The BJP has fielded cabinet minister Rekha Arya from Someshwar, Renu Bisht from Yamkeshwar, Savinta Kapur from Dehradun Cantt, Devyani from Khanpur, Chandra Pant from Pithoragarh and Sarita Arya from Nainital assembly segment. 

When asked the Leader of Opposition (LoP) Pritam Singh said that the party has given tickets to three women candidates in the first list and in the second list too women candidates would be given tickets. The founder of the Social Development for Communities Foundation (SDC) foundation Anoop Nautiyal said that the data of the 2017 election prove that there are 34 such seats in the mountainous areas where more women took part in the elections. In these seats 65 per cent women cast their votes and in comparison the voting percentage of men was only 51 in these seats. He said the political parties should work more on women centric issues.