A total of nineteen Muslim MLAs have been elected in four states, namely Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana and Chhattisgarh. Elections were also held for Mizoram, a state where the Muslim population is almost nil. Of the 19, eight MLAs were elected for the Rajasthan and Telengana Assemblies each. In Madhya Pradesh, the number of Muslims…
Mohammed Akbar, the lone Muslim MLA in the newly elected Chhattisgarh Assembly has been appointed as a Minister in the Government headed by Mr. Bhupesh Baghel. Akbar won the election from Kanwardha seat registering the largest margin of victory in the State in the just concluded elections. In Madhya Pradesh, Mr. Arif Aqueel has been…
Jaipur: Polling for the 200-seat Rajasthan Assembly will be held on December 7. But both major contenders for power i.e., Congress and the BJP, have fielded fewer Muslim candidates in the fray. The Congress had fielded 16 candidates in 2013. This time, it has nominated one less, 15 Muslims. The BJP, which had given tickets…
A triumvirate within the party is running the Government hoping against hope that the opposition will never be united. The General Elections are just about nine months away. The ruling BJP is sitting pretty, smug with satisfaction that ‘there is no alternative’ (TINA) factor will come to its rescue as the Opposition, a motley combination…
By A Staff Analyst The Muslim representation in the 224-member Karnataka Assembly declined to mere seven in the recently-held election for the 15th legislative Assembly. The previous House had 12 members. The highest ever number of Muslim MLAs was 17, in the Assembly elected in 1978. It dipped to lowest ever, i.e., two, in the…
Bengaluru: Dr. Syed Naseer Hussain is the new Muslim MP elected to the Rajya Sabha in the elections held on March 23. He along with G. C. Chandrashekhar and L. Hanumanthaiah were the three candidates nominated by the Congress which had 123 members in the 224-member Karnataka Assembly. The Congress was able to get all…
By A Staff Analyst Bengaluru: Muslims in Karnataka have, through a series of initiatives, made it plain to the secular parties that they would favour any winnable candidate from a party committed to secular ethos. In fact, in separate meetings with the leaders of the Congress and the Janata Dal-Secular they made it abundantly clear…
The media conveniently buried the EVM’s tampering in favour of the BJP, under the deafening silence. Dr Mohammad Manzoor Alam A recent expose by Rajasthan Patrika that had the potential to create a storm in the media and society has been quietly allowed to die down and buried in deafening silence by the same corporate media that…
Lok Sabha MP from Hyderabad Asaduddin Owaisi has proved himself to be the pastmaster in dividing Muslim votes, as he was suspected to have done in Maharashtra Assembly last year and Mumbai Municipal Corporation elections earlier this year. His role in dividing the Muslim votes in Uttar Pradesh in the recently-concluded Assembly election has been…
Lucknow: It is now apparent that the BJP scored a landslide victory in Uttar Pradesh. Whether Muslims would vote tactically or not, was not the BJP’s concern. It steamrolled through the canvassing by polarizing the voters on religious lines, and the Muslims had no inkling of the strategy prior to the elections. Analysis of the…
