Congress’s Kaneez Fatima who is the lone Muslim woman in the Karnataka Assembly, defeated BJP’s Chandrakant B Patil to win the Karnataka Assembly elections from the Gulbarga North constituency.
Her win comes a year after she actively participated in the protest against the BJP’s decision to enforce a ban on students wearing hijab in classrooms.
Kaneez defeated her BJP rival by a margin of 2,712 votes.
In the 2018 state elections, Kaneez Fatima won in Gulbarga North, a constituency dominated by Muslims, by defeating Chandrakant Patil with a margin of 5,940 votes and a vote share of 43.29%.
In December 2019, Kaneez had joined protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in Kalaburagi town in December 2019.
She was the wife of a former minister, the late Qamar-ul-Islam who was also MLA from the same constituency in 2013.
