Changing face of the legislature
The greater participation of women in the electoral arena and the greater turnout of women voters has resulted in the highest number of women ever being elected to the lower house this time.
Bengali cinema starlets Nusrat Jahan and Mimi Chakraborty, both elected as Trinamool Congress MPs from West Bengal, proudly posted selfies on May 27, their first day in Parliament. The Bengali Twitterati was enraged and booed them for not having a sense of occasion and for missing the point of sartorial messaging. You must look the part, after all, and actors of all stripes should know better.
Nusrat was in white shirt, jeans and sneakers, Mimi in a pant suit, and both wore dark glasses. Fans perhaps expected them in formal Indian attire, maybe a sari or kurta. Or perhaps the new-look Lok Sabha will wear its transformation on its metaphoric sleeve. So while saffron
