Kerala Haj committee has no woman member this time
The Hindu
For the first time, a woman was nominated in 2018 for panel’s four-year tenure
It is once again an all-male affair at the Kerala State Haj Committee as no woman has found a place on the recently reconstituted committee. The government order appointing a 16-member, all-male committee was issued on August 11. Though women constitute more than half the number of Haj pilgrims from the State, it was only in 2018 that a woman was first nominated as a member of the committee. Indian National League leader and Kanhangad municipality vice chairperson L. Sulaikha had made it to the 2018-2021 committee. She was followed by a S. Sajitha, a councillor of Valanchery municipality, who had a seven-month-long stint as a panel member. The two women made it to the committee under the quota for civic representatives.
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