Click to play videoMizoram: The women of Mizoram have been carrying the burden of bias that show up every time there is an election in this state.
The 3,08,000 women of Mizoram out number men by 6,000. Yet there are only nine women candidates out of the 205 asking for votes.
However, there aren't any answers as to why the numerically strong women voters are rarely seen as candidates taking on the men and contesting the polls.
Forty out of every 100 government officers in Mizoram are women. The number puzzle of almost no women candidates is a mystery.
Kate Hansiyami who won convincingly from Aizwal west constituency in 1984 rewinds to her time.
"At that time men voters refused me, saying we don't like women candidates. I tried very hard but they insisted we don't like women candidates," recalls Hansiyami.
A first time in elections Mi Pui is taking on the chief minister as a candidate for United Democratic Alliance. She is determined to fight this bias.
"Women are the weaker section of the society and they don't have ability. And they don't have the strength to stand on equal grounds with men. That is is attitude of the society. So may be that is the reason that women themselves feel weaker and have a complex," says Mi Pui.
Come December 7, and it's not just going to be about the elections, but also the silent battle of the sexes that the women in Mizoram society are slowly but surely fighting.
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