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#WomenLead (Issue 84): Your weekly round-up on women in politics

Hello, and welcome to Issue 84!

In India, five states are set to hold elections in the coming weeks starting February 10. There are 690 seats up for grabs across them all, and thousands of candidates will be contesting and fighting them out. But most of them are going to be men. While we don’t have final tallies of candidates yet, it is pretty much possi…