BJP’s Kalkaji candidate Ramesh Bidhuri has done it again. Months after directing slurs at MP Danish Ali, his remarks on Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Delhi chief minister Atishi Singh have now reportedly triggered disquiet within sections of the BJP.

Three days after his remarks, the Delhi Chief Election Commissioner, while announcing the schedule, cautioned parties to not use derogatory language against women.

But can such remarks impact an election? Newslaundry spoke to women voters in Kalkaji, where Bidhuri is in a triangular contest against AAP’s Atishi and Congress leader Alka Lamba.

Kalkaji has a total of 84,031 women electors. In the 2020 Delhi assembly elections, the percentage of women in Kalkaji who voted stood at 57.82 percent, slightly higher than men’s voting percentage of 57.14 percent. In the 2020 polls, experts had noted that women in Delhi had voted overwhelmingly in favour of AAP, far more than male voters. A poll-eve survey conducted by Lokniti-CSDS had also found that women were 11 percentage points more likely to have voted for AAP in the last assembly polls as compared to........

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