An unprecedented 16 of Maharashtra’s 48 Lok Sabha constituencies are witnessing electoral battles involving women candidates. One of them, Baramati, is seeing sisters-in-law Supriya Sule and Sunetra Pawar face off.

In the 2019 general election, in Maharashtra, 11 women—mostly from political families—were in the race. Eight went on to become MPs: NCP’s Supriya Sule (Baramati), Shiv Sena’s Bhavana Gawali (Yavatmal-Washim), BJP’s Pritam Munde (Beed), Raksha Khadse (Raver), Heena Gavit (Nandurbar), Poonam Mahajan (Mumbai North Central) and Bharati Pawar (Dindori); and NCP-backed independent Navneet Rana (Amravati).