Glass Ceiling Smashed: Lucknow to Get First Woman Mayor in 100 Yrs

Sanyukta Bhatia is one of the women candidates for the mayor.

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Breaking the glass ceiling, Lucknow will create history on Sunday by electing its first-ever woman mayor in 100 years.

All the parties fielded female candidates after the Lucknow mayoral seat was reserved for women.

The civic polls will be held in the state capital on Sunday in the second leg of the three-phase municipal elections across Uttar Pradesh.

The city got its chance to elect a woman mayor 100 years after the Uttar Pradesh Municipalities Act came into existence.

Hopeful Candidates

"But better late than never," says BSP candidate Bulbul Godiyal.

Our time has come.

Sanyukta Bhatia, BJP mayoral candidate

The Samajwadi Party has selected Meera Vardhan, kin of educationist Acharya Narendra Dev, and the Congress has pitched Prema Awasthi, wife of the late former Congress legislator, Surendra Nath.

(With PTI inputs)

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