The State will be going to the elections in the next two or three months. This offers the major opportunity for the community to assert its right as well as gather its numerical might to demand a change in their social, economic and educational condition. By Maqbool Ahmed Siraj The results of the SNAP-Guidance Guild…
If Muslim voters could turn out in substantial numbers, they can greatly influence the outcome in these constituencies and facilitate the victory of candidates put up by secular parties. By Syed Zafar Mahmood Assembly elections will be held in West Bengal in 2016. The State Assembly has 294 constituencies, of which 68 are reserved for…
Sangh Parivar had tried to stoke communal embers during the last six months but people were deaf to their polarizing campaign. By Anish Ankur More than anything else, the Bihar verdict should be seen as a firm rejection of RSS brand of polarising politics. Perhaps no comment about the outcome was more befitting than the…
Ideology has taken a backseat and alliances have been contrived on the basis of personal equations among leaders. By Anish Ankur A five-phase election schedule has been announced for Bihar Assembly. What was earlier thought to be a bipolar contest in the State with Nitish Kumar and Narendra Modi leading the two prominent fronts has…
Maharashtra Assembly Poll Little chance that Congress would mend its ways. By M. Burhanuddin M. Qasmi Mumbai: A clear sign emerging from the elections in Maharashtra and Haryana is that the Bhartiya Janata Party is going to stay in power much longer than the Vajpayee era. By all measures, the party’s tally in Maharashtra i.e.,…
The 16th General Election for the Lok Sabha is upon us. A decade of United Progressive Alliance’s (UPA) rule in Delhi has been a mixed bag. It did really well in managing the politically diverse Parliament and the resultant coalition at the Centre and still delivering a lot of its promises on the legislation front.…
New House is dominated by Vokkaligas and Lingayaths By A Staff Writer Bangalore: The 16th Legislative Assembly in Karnataka has eleven Muslim members, two more than the last Assembly. Nine of them have been elected on Congress ticket while two from the Janata Dal Secular got elected by trouncing their Congress rivals. The new Muslim…
The Congress party in Karnataka has so far held two minority conventions to consolidate its hold over the sizeable minority votes. By Azmathulla Shariff Bangalore: The Congress party in Karnataka has geared up to garner maximum votes of the minorities who constitute a little over 18 per cent in the state. The party is convinced…
KARNATAKA By Maqbool Ahmed Siraj A third avatar of the BJP Government has taken over the reins in Karnataka under the leadership of Jagadeesh Shettar. The latest transition was though not without hiccups, it is at least certain that the former chief minister Mr. Yeddyurappa still calls the shots in the party and the BJP…
Muslim en masse favoured parties representing underprivileged classes. Muslim representation in Uttar Pradesh Assembly hasrisen to the all time high figure of 68 in the elections held during January-March 2012. The last Assembly had 56 Muslim MLAs. The representation this time has reached 17 per cent, very close to being proportional to the Muslim population in the state i.e., 18 per cent. Of these, 42…
