FILE PHOTO: A woman is seen with Indian 100 rupee notes in India, November 5, 2018. REUTERS/Amit Dave
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian political parties are increasingly targeting women voters with fiscally draining handouts of cash around the time of elections to counter wider worries about inflation and the lack of jobs, analysts say.
A greater turnout of women voters in the past decade has reversed a trend of men easily outnumbering women. Political parties have competed to attract them, even as inflation hit a 14-month peak in October and unemployment stays high, at 8.9%.
