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Roorkee: The election commission’s new norms which include ban on candidates having more than two children from contesting polls has given rise to a new trend this time -- the rise of “dummy” women candidates. Unable to contest polls, Arif fielded his second wife Praveen, 32, in the polls.“I am canvassing door-to-door for my wife. If she wins, it means that I have won the election,” Arif told TOI.The other example is that of Rao Irfan, whose second wife Daulat Jahan is contesting the poll. “Since Daulat does not have any child, so I made her file nomination papers in the poll,” Irfan said. It is a Muslim-dominated constituency which has around 12,500 voters of which around 1,000 are Hindus..