Shagun scripts history by winning Assembly election as a female candidate of the BJP. [Video]

Terror victim Shagun Parihar scripted a new chapter in the political history of Jammu and Kashmir as she became the first elected female MLA of the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) in this part of the country.

Interestingly, the first female BJP MLA was elected from the Muslim majority assembly segment. Since the establishment of the Praja Parishad on November 17, 1947, through the era of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh—an early precursor to the BJP—up until the present day, not a single woman has been elected under the banner of the Saffron Party in Jammu and Kashmir.

Although Priya Sethi was a BJP legislator in 2014, she was nominated as MLA from women’s quota and was not elected by the people.

Shagun Parihar, who defeated the National Conference stalwart, two-time MLA, and ex-Home Minister in the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, created history as she emerged victorious from a Muslim-dominated assembly seat of mountainous …