Question

your elder sister wants to become the chief minister of your state when she grows up. however, she is regularly discouraged by a family friend, who says that politics is not ment for women. how will you explain your family friends that women can be rulers too?

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One hundred and eleven deputy chief ministers since 1952, and India now gets its fifth female deputy chief minister in Renu Devi of the BJP in Bihar. Apart from Devi, the only other one who is currently serving is Pusha Sreevani in the YSR Congress Party government of Andhra Pradesh. Ironically, there have been more than triple the number of female chief ministers than deputies, certainly many more than five, even discounting short term stand-ins. Only one of these five, Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, in Punjab, started out as a deputy and went on to attain the chief ministerial post.There are two kinds of chief ministers and deputies. The first are charismatic leaders, typically party chiefs or tall personalities, on whose coattails and/or accomplishments, the parties ride to victory. Most male and female chief ministers, from the inception of electoral democracy in India, would fit that mould: Mamata Banerjee, Jayalalithaa, Shiela Dixit, Mayawati, Nandini Sathpathy, Sucheta Kriplani and, of course, their male counterparts. Such leaders may have become deputies in a coalition arrangement or when they were second in command, like, Jyoti Basu, Siddaramiah, Dushyant Singh Chautala, Ajit Pawar, M.K. Stalin.

The second kind are favoured for the top post, not because of mass appeal or ability to leverage wins well beyond their own, but because they are party loyalists. In fact, they may have neither quality. Many would argue that is a leitmotif of the BJP’s selection process. Apart from rare “mass leaders” like B.S. Yediyurappa, almost all appointees are chosen more for self-effacing party loyalty than other political attributes. Anandiben Patel was very much in this mould when she was selected to succeed Narendra Modi as chief minister of Gujarat in 2014, as was Narendra Modi himself.