Modi's move to eradicate 'backwardness' among Muslims is more complex than just an attempt to woo community
5 years, 9 months ago

Modi's move to eradicate 'backwardness' among Muslims is more complex than just an attempt to woo community

Firstpost  

Although the BJP establishment has relied heavily on anti-Muslim discourse to nurture its version of nationalism, the party has been able to create effective channels with Muslim communities at least at the constituency level. It is claimed that the government would tackle Muslim backwardness on purely egalitarian terms to achieve the ‘development for all, and appeasement of none!’ However, there is a political reading of Naqvi’s statement as well. Affirmative Action for Muslims 2014-19 One must remember that the BJP’s 2014 manifesto talked about the Muslim backwardness as an important minority issue. Yet, the Modi government 2014-19 not only recognised Muslim backwardness, at least on technical grounds but also treated the Sachar Report as a policy source.

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Why BJP’s election upset failed to halt the persecution of Muslims in India
8 months ago

Why BJP’s election upset failed to halt the persecution of Muslims in India

Al Jazeera  

Rather than engaging in introspect, authorities in BJP-governed states responded to the electoral setback by inventing novel methods to harass, humiliate and attack Muslims. It was hoped that having a smaller number of MPs in the Parliament of India would chasten the BJP and its new “secular” allies would act as a brake on the party’s anti-Muslim policies. Earlier this …

Respite may still elude a beleaguered community
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Respite may still elude a beleaguered community

The Hindu  

In November 1888, Lord Dufferin wrote, ‘Muslims of British India, a nation of 50 million reigned supreme from the Himalayas to Cape Comorin’. There is optimism that regional parties could act as a check on the propaganda machinery of the Hindutva right and its anti-Muslim biases, potentially curbing the Narendra Modi government’s pursuit of discriminatory policies against Muslims. No Muslim …

Lack of Muslim representation in Modi cabinet does not mean marginalisation
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Lack of Muslim representation in Modi cabinet does not mean marginalisation

Op India  

On Sunday, 9th June, Prime Minister Narendra Modi took oath for the third consecutive term and became the second ever Prime Minister to do so after India’s first PM Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Congress supporter Dhivya Marunthiah posted, “293 MPs 72 Ministers ZERO Muslims Sums up NDA.” Source: X Rajdeep Sardesai, who is a Journalist and husband of Trinamool Congress’s journalist-turned-Rajya …

FROM THE SIDELINES | Results of the 2024 election is a seismic moment for Muslims that restores faith in democracy.
9 months, 2 weeks ago

FROM THE SIDELINES | Results of the 2024 election is a seismic moment for Muslims that restores faith in democracy.

The Hindu  

Published : Jun 10, 2024 15:56 IST - 7 MINS READ “Love has illuminated my body My inner self has brightened My words now have the fragrance of musk” —Kabir, 15th-century poet-philosopher from Varanasi In the past decade, there appeared to be no limits to the exclusion-cum-violence, real and psychological, against India’s Muslims that the Narendra Modi regime and its …

India election results: Did ‘secular’ parties let Muslims down, too?
9 months, 3 weeks ago

India election results: Did ‘secular’ parties let Muslims down, too?

Al Jazeera  

Scared of the BJP describing them as pro-Muslim, these parties distanced themselves from the community, analysts say. “They know that a large part of India’s middle class is radicalised to the extent that taking the name of Muslims might harm the fortunes of political parties,” Mohammed Ali, an award-winning journalist based in New Delhi, said, speaking of Gandhi’s Indian National …

Modi loses ground in India’s parliament, but his Hindu nationalist policies are here to stay
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Modi loses ground in India’s parliament, but his Hindu nationalist policies are here to stay

LA Times  

Muslims protest outside Srinagar in Kashmir in 2019, when India’s Hindu nationalist government stripped the Muslim-majority region of its semiautonomous status. That decision now seems to be irreversible, with India’s top court upholding the move, ruling in December that the region’s special status had been a “temporary provision.” The Supreme Court said the government had promised to restore Jammu-Kashmir’s statehood …

Why a third term for Modi could be ‘catastrophic’ for India’s 200 million Muslims
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Why a third term for Modi could be ‘catastrophic’ for India’s 200 million Muslims

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Muzammil Ahmed, who teaches such children in Delhi, says …

PM 'unleashing hate speech' against Muslims from every available forum: Opposition
10 months ago

PM 'unleashing hate speech' against Muslims from every available forum: Opposition

New Indian Express  

NEW DELHI: The opposition on Monday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "never uttered a word against minorities" remark, saying he is "lying" as he is "unleashing hate speech" against Muslims from every available forum. In an interview with PTI, Modi said he has never uttered a word against minorities, and the BJP has "not just today but never" …

India’s parliament has fewer Muslims as strength of Modi’s party grows
10 months, 1 week ago

India’s parliament has fewer Muslims as strength of Modi’s party grows

Associated Press  

MALAPPURAM, India — Preventing Muslim migrants from gaining citizenship. India has gone from being a country where Muslims were largely marginalized to one where they are “actively excluded,” said Ali Khan Mahmudabad, a political scientist and historian at New Delhi’s Ashoka University. so they remain enemies,” said Mehmood Bhai Khatri, a 64-year-old Muslim voter from Modi’s home state of Gujarat, …

Congress Has A History of Discriminating On Basis Of State, Language, Religion: Piyush Goyal To CNN-News18
10 months, 1 week ago

Congress Has A History of Discriminating On Basis Of State, Language, Religion: Piyush Goyal To CNN-News18

News 18  

Union minister of commerce and industry Piyush Goyal, in an exclusive interview to Network18 Group Editor-in-Chief Rahul Joshi, flayed Congress’ manifesto and said the party is still thinking of appeasement and following on the economic path shown by Sam Pitroda. “We have kept a vision of how we can become a developed India in this Amrit Kaal, and what steps …

Modi says he does not oppose Islam or Muslims amid mounting criticism over campaign speeches
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Modi says he does not oppose Islam or Muslims amid mounting criticism over campaign speeches

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Narendra Modi has said in …

Modi and Lalu Prasad spar over the issue of reservations for Muslims
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Modi and Lalu Prasad spar over the issue of reservations for Muslims

The Hindu  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad on Tuesday sparred over the issue of reservations for Muslims, with Mr. Modi accusing the Opposition of being unable to look “beyond appeasement” after Mr. Prasad had supported the idea of reservation for Muslims. Hours later, Mr. Prasad clarified that he was in favour of extending reservation benefits to …

PM Modi: People have to decide if ‘vote jihad’ will work or Ram Rajya
10 months, 2 weeks ago

PM Modi: People have to decide if ‘vote jihad’ will work or Ram Rajya

The Hindu  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 7 said the country has reached a turning point in history and the people have to decide whether it will be run by "vote jihad" or Ram Rajya. Addressing a rally in Madhya Pradesh's Khargone district, Mr. Modi hit out at the Opposition Congress, saying its intent is very dangerous and it calls for …

Watch | PM Narendra Modi says he does not oppose Islam: 'Muslim community is…'
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Watch | PM Narendra Modi says he does not oppose Islam: 'Muslim community is…'

Hindustan Times  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said he does not oppose Islam or Muslims and wants the community to think about their future growth as they vote in an ongoing Lok Sabha elections 2024 that completes its third phase on Tuesday, May 7. Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives to cast his vote for the third phase of Lok Sabha elections in …

Muslims should get full reservation, says Lalu amid third phase of LS polls in Bihar
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Muslims should get full reservation, says Lalu amid third phase of LS polls in Bihar

New Indian Express  

PATNA: Amidst polling for the third phase of Lok Sabha elections, Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav on Tuesday made a statement that Muslims should get ‘full reservation’ in government jobs and admissions in government educational institutions. The RJD supremo’s reactions came a day after Union Home Minister Amit Shah said at an election rally that BJP would abolish …

Imtiaz Jaleel Interview: 'Opposition Wants Muslim Votes, Not Muslim Leadership'
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Imtiaz Jaleel Interview: 'Opposition Wants Muslim Votes, Not Muslim Leadership'

The Quint  

There are some people for whom they will. A memorial was being built for a BJP politician here and crores of rupees worth government land was allotted for building it. But when I posted this news on social media, a lot of BJP supporters commented as to why I said 'Aurangabad' and not Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar. When the Uttar Pradesh …

Muslim community understands Congress, INDIA bloc using them as pawns, says PM Modi
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Muslim community understands Congress, INDIA bloc using them as pawns, says PM Modi

The Hindu  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 5 said Muslims now understand that the Congress and INDIA bloc are using them as pawns, asserting that the community is distancing itself from them after seeing the development carried out by the BJP. "The Muslim community also realises that the Congress and INDI alliance have made them pawns," he said, adding that "that …

Muslims now stand with BJP; understood Congress, INDIA bloc using them as pawns: PM Modi
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Muslims now stand with BJP; understood Congress, INDIA bloc using them as pawns: PM Modi

New Indian Express  

LUCKNOW: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said Muslims now understand that the Congress and INDIA bloc are using them as pawns, asserting that the community is distancing itself from them after seeing the development carried out by the BJP. Addressing a rally in support of BJP candidate Rekha Verma in Dhaurahra, Modi said that the poor and those belonging …

‘Hindus have become second class citizens in Bengal’: PM Modi slams Mamata govt
10 months, 3 weeks ago

‘Hindus have become second class citizens in Bengal’: PM Modi slams Mamata govt

India TV News  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday lamented Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress during his public address in Bardhaman-Durgapur, Krishnanagar and Bolpur in West Bengal saying that TMC has reduced Hindus to second-class citizens. Starting with the slogans of Jai Maa Durga, Jai Maa Kali and Har Har Mahadev, Modi spoke vividly and furiously about various hot issues, including Sandeshkhali, Ram mandir, …

‘Vote jihad’: As Modi raises anti-Muslim India election pitch, what’s next?
10 months, 3 weeks ago

‘Vote jihad’: As Modi raises anti-Muslim India election pitch, what’s next?

Al Jazeera  

As the campaign targeting of Muslims becomes more direct and shrill, experts fear Modi’s words could encourage violence against the community. After Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party attacked her for the use of “jihad” in her speech, she clarified to the press that by “jihad”, Arabic for struggle, she was encouraging Muslim voter participation. ‘Infiltrators’, ‘invaders’, ‘looters’ In a campaign speech …

Ecostani | The silence of the Muslim voter could be real and strategic
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Ecostani | The silence of the Muslim voter could be real and strategic

Hindustan Times  

There was silence outside Darul Uloom in Uttar Pradesh’s Deoband town, as students walked into India’s biggest Muslim seminary dressed in spotless white kurta-pyjamas and wearing a ‘taqiyah’, the round skull cap, on April 17, two days before polling was to be held for the first phase. “We will talk after June 4,” was his polite refusal, summing up the …

Castes from Muslim communities ‘intentionally’ included in backward classes, claims BJP
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Castes from Muslim communities ‘intentionally’ included in backward classes, claims BJP

Hindustan Times  

Ahead of the third phase of the Lok Sabha elections, Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Shahnawaz Hussain said some castes from the Muslim community were intentionally included in the backward community under the reservation system allotted under the Mandal Commission. BJP national spokesperson and former Union minister Shahnawaz Hussain "In the reservation system given under the Mandal Commission, some people intentionally …

View: Belligerent PM Modi puts Congress in a fix over Muslim empowerment
11 months ago

View: Belligerent PM Modi puts Congress in a fix over Muslim empowerment

Hindustan Times  

After a relatively staid first round of polls, the campaigning for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections was fired up with the opposition Congress firing salvos of wealth distribution, inheritance tax, and including Muslims in the OBC category for reservation in Karnataka to protect its minority vote bank, which is key to defend its 15 seats in Communist-ruled Kerala and increase …

Farooq, Mehbooba regret PM Modi’s remarks on Muslims
11 months ago

Farooq, Mehbooba regret PM Modi’s remarks on Muslims

The Hindu  

National Conference president Dr. Farooq Abdullah and Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday lashed out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his recent remarks about Muslims during a poll speech. “In pursuit of their anti-Muslim agenda, the BJP is destroying the social fabric of the majority Hindu community itself, radicalising and criminalising Hindu youth for their power lust,” …

The tactically silent Indian Muslim voter
11 months ago

The tactically silent Indian Muslim voter

Hindustan Times  

Uttar Pradesh has just finished its first phase of Lok Sabha elections and several recent reports have shown that Muslims have observed a “tactical silence” in this election. First, we must reject historical essentialisation — a view of the community that assumes a special historical continuity between the Muslim monarchs of India and Muslims in India today. This view of …

Modi is accused of using hate speech for calling Muslims ‘infiltrators’ at an Indian election rally
11 months ago

Modi is accused of using hate speech for calling Muslims ‘infiltrators’ at an Indian election rally

Associated Press  

NEW DELHI — India’s main opposition party accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of using hate speech after he called Muslims “infiltrators” — some of his most incendiary rhetoric about the minority faith, days after the country began its weekslong general election. At a rally in the state of Rajasthan, Modi said that when the Congress party was in government, “they …

Modi’s ‘hate speech’ against Muslims sparks backlash as Indian elections get underway
11 months ago

Modi’s ‘hate speech’ against Muslims sparks backlash as Indian elections get underway

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s …

Mayawati invokes dalits, OBCs, and minorities at Ghaziabad rally
11 months ago

Mayawati invokes dalits, OBCs, and minorities at Ghaziabad rally

Hindustan Times  

Ghaziabad: The Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Sunday chose to speak about the suffering of the backwards, Dalits, Muslims and other religious minorities as she attacked the present Bharatiya Janata Party government and previous Congress governments. Experts observed it was BSP chief’s attempt to garner votes of these classes besides making an endeavour to retain her party’s core vote …

Congress manifesto bears Muslim League imprint: PM
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Congress manifesto bears Muslim League imprint: PM

Hindustan Times  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday pitched the 2024 Lok Sabha polls as a “mission vs commission” contest. Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during a public meeting, ahead of Lok Sabha elections, in Saharanpur, Saturday Speaking at a public meeting in Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur, he targeted the Congress, which released its manifesto on Friday and said it reflects the ideology …

Caste survey and quota hike: Bihar starts political churn ahead of 2024 polls
1 year, 4 months ago

Caste survey and quota hike: Bihar starts political churn ahead of 2024 polls

Hindustan Times  

PATNA: The recent announcement by the Nitish Kumar government to hike reservation to 75% in Bihar based on the findings of the caste survey presented before the Bihar Legislative Assembly on Tuesday, has infused new energy into the run-up to the 2024 general elections. There is no monolithic cultural category and that will set new political trends with a demand …

Muslims overwhelmingly want to see Rahul Gandhi as India's PM: Read why
1 year, 5 months ago

Muslims overwhelmingly want to see Rahul Gandhi as India's PM: Read why

Op India  

The Indian General Election is likely to be held in India between April and May 2024 to elect the members of the 18th Lok Sabha. The poll results revealed that while 61% of general voters and 70% of Forward Caste voters want PM Modi to continue as the Prime Minister of the country, 52% of the Muslims in India want …

Modi’s lesson from Israel: Demolish Muslim homes, erase their history
1 year, 6 months ago

Modi’s lesson from Israel: Demolish Muslim homes, erase their history

Al Jazeera  

The Hindu far-right’s actions in Nuh, in India’s Haryana, echo Israel’s policies of trying to delete histories and legacies of the Palestinian people. Much like Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport stands adamantly on the remains of Palestinian communities forced from their homes, a new temple to the Hindu god Ram has been built over the debris of the historic Babri Masjid …

India journeying towards majoritarianism since beginning: Asad
1 year, 9 months ago

India journeying towards majoritarianism since beginning: Asad

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi, speaking at Addison in Illinois of USA, said that India’s journey as a country has been towards a majoritarian one since Day one. UP’s first CM Govind Vallabh Pant had said we should either remain together or leave.” He said that the BJP currently has 306 MPs without a single Muslim MP or minister in …

What Minorities Want: BJP Begins ‘Sufi Samvad’ as Outreach for 2024 Polls, Focus on Economically Backward
2 years ago

What Minorities Want: BJP Begins ‘Sufi Samvad’ as Outreach for 2024 Polls, Focus on Economically Backward

News 18  

The BJP has started ‘Sufi Samvad’ – interactions with minorities, especially those from an economically backward section in these communities – ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The saffron party’s minority morcha will hold a large sammelan in December featuring an address by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Some of them will also speak about government policies that improved lives …

PM Modi’s nudge on Muslims leads Bengal BJP to tweak its strategy
2 years, 1 month ago

PM Modi’s nudge on Muslims leads Bengal BJP to tweak its strategy

Hindustan Times  

KOLKATA: At a media briefing on Thursday last, West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party leader Suvendu Adhikari held out a message for the state’s Muslim community. Adhikari’s appeal came days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi told party leaders at the BJP national executive on January 17 to reach out to Muslims without expecting their votes in elections. TMC Rajya Sabha member …

OPINION | 2024 gamechanger: Modi's outreach towards Muslims
2 years, 2 months ago

OPINION | 2024 gamechanger: Modi's outreach towards Muslims

India TV News  

In his aim to achieve a hat-trick in Lok Sabha elections, due next year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday gave a clarion call to his party men to reach out to Muslims, Christians and other minorities and ensure that the benefits of welfare reach every household among the marginalized communities. Addressing the BJP national executive, Modi cautioned party workers …

Dilemma of Muslim community: How minority politics in India has prioritised 'identity' over issues of actual concern
2 years, 2 months ago

Dilemma of Muslim community: How minority politics in India has prioritised 'identity' over issues of actual concern

Firstpost  

This year has been dubbed the year of electoral “semi-finals” with as many as nine states set to go to the polls over the next few months ahead of the 2024 general elections, the so-called “finals”. The enthusiastic Muslim embrace of Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra is a classic case of clutching at straws to feel “included” swayed by carefully …

India ruling party has no Muslim MP for the first time in history
2 years, 8 months ago

India ruling party has no Muslim MP for the first time in history

Al Jazeera  

Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist BJP is left with no Muslim parliamentarian after Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi resigns as the minorities affairs minister. With Rajya Sabha term of Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi ending on Thursday, BJP will have no Muslim MP among its 395 Members of Parliament — Press Trust of India July 6, 2022 Significantly, the BJP does not have a single …

PM Modi’s ‘minority move’ aimed at delinking them from ‘elite’ concerns
2 years, 8 months ago

PM Modi’s ‘minority move’ aimed at delinking them from ‘elite’ concerns

The Hindu  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s intervention at the recently concluded national executive meet of the Bharatiya Janata Party held in Hyderabad, that the party reach out to the marginalised and “non-elite” sections of minority communities, was not just restricted to the Pasmanda community among Muslims, but also to see ways in which Christian communities in States like Kerala and Goa could …

DC Edit | PM’s emphasis on reaching out to minorities welcome
2 years, 8 months ago

DC Edit | PM’s emphasis on reaching out to minorities welcome

Deccan Chronicle  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has mooted a “Sneha Yatra”, a massive public outreach programme, to connect with the minority communities, especially the poor among the Muslims and Christians, by the BJP to win them over to the party’s side. Mr Modi would attribute the ‘misconceptions’ about the party’s approach towards minorities to Opposition propaganda and wants the party to convey …

PM Modi tells BJP to reach out to the deprived among Muslims, other minorities
2 years, 8 months ago

PM Modi tells BJP to reach out to the deprived among Muslims, other minorities

The Hindu  

Reaching out to deprived, non-elite among Muslims and other minorities on the issues of development and welfare programmes of the Modi government was one of the things flagged by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the National Executive meet of the BJP in Hyderabad. According to senior sources present at the meeting, Mr. Modi made this intervention when BJP Uttar Pradesh …

Region, Religion, Resentment: These 3 Factors May Reshape West Bengal Politics
2 years, 10 months ago

Region, Religion, Resentment: These 3 Factors May Reshape West Bengal Politics

The Quint  

The Lokniti-CSDS post-poll survey of 2016 said that nearly 51% of the Muslims voted for TMC in 2016. After BJP's crushing defeat in the 2021 Assembly Elections, the fear of the BJP among the Muslim voters started to wane. Therefore, keeping this 75 percent Muslim vote intact is next to impossible for the TMC when a resurgence of the Left …

Muslims realise only PM Modi, CM Yogi will work for their true development: UP's lone minority minister
2 years, 11 months ago

Muslims realise only PM Modi, CM Yogi will work for their true development: UP's lone minority minister

India TV News  

Highlights Danish Azad Ansari, only Muslim minister in UP, claimed that his community warming up to BJP Ballia resident was inducted into the BJP-led government as a minister of state BJP is getting the love of Muslim society now, Danish Azad Ansari said Danish Azad Ansari, the only Muslim minister in Uttar Pradesh, on Sunday claimed that his community is …

Assembly poll results and after: Why Muslims and the BJP need to talk, and talk fast
3 years ago

Assembly poll results and after: Why Muslims and the BJP need to talk, and talk fast

Firstpost  

The effort should be to try and strike a balance between minority rights and the majority community’s sensitivities, which it believes have been ignored in the name of secularism In the run-up to the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, a distant cousin of mine — an old Congress loyalist — who lives in a small town in eastern Uttar Pradesh, called …

SP Propaganda That BJP Doesn't Work for Muslims Trashed Now: NDA's First Muslim Pick for UP Polls
3 years, 2 months ago

SP Propaganda That BJP Doesn't Work for Muslims Trashed Now: NDA's First Muslim Pick for UP Polls

News 18  

Haider Ali Khan, BJP ally Apna Dal’s candidate from Swar Assembly seat, is the National Democratic Alliance’s first Muslim nominee for Uttar Pradesh elections 2022. The switch has set political circles abuzz since his father Nawaz Kazim Ali Khan is still with the Congress and is the grand old party’s candidate from Rampur Assembly seat. The Swar Assembly seat was …

Muslims 'most secure and happy' under BJP rule, says RSS Muslim body
3 years, 2 months ago

Muslims 'most secure and happy' under BJP rule, says RSS Muslim body

The Hindu  

The RSS' Muslim wing on Friday appealed to the minority community to vote for the BJP in the assembly polls in five states, saying Muslims are "most secure and happy" under the BJP rule whereas the Congress, SP and the BSP considered them just as vote bank. The opposition parties, including the Congress, Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party, …

UP Next: Muslims Not a Homogeneous Bloc and Why a Section of Them Will Vote for BJP
3 years, 6 months ago

UP Next: Muslims Not a Homogeneous Bloc and Why a Section of Them Will Vote for BJP

News 18  

This piece may unsettle some notions about Muslim political choices in Uttar Pradesh. However, during my field study along with a team of researchers on the changing political choices among marginal communities in Uttar Pradesh, I found their political choices to be diverse. Among them too, we found similar trends in political choices—that they are not one bloc mobilized in …

UP Next: 2022 Polls Will See Whether Muslims Vote for Development or Identity
3 years, 7 months ago

UP Next: 2022 Polls Will See Whether Muslims Vote for Development or Identity

News 18  

Muslims are the second largest religious community in Uttar Pradesh. On one hand, it brought cohesive political assertion among the Muslim community and, on the other hand, the impact of the implementation of the Mandal commission also reshaped political aspirations of a section of Muslims. If someone prepares a political map of Muslim mobilisation, they may understand that due to …

Decoding the Muslim vote in West Bengal
3 years, 11 months ago

Decoding the Muslim vote in West Bengal

India Today  

West Bengal is witnessing perhaps the most polarised election so far. Urdu-speaking Muslims comprise roughly 6-7 per cent of Bengal’s population and are concentrated mostly in urban centres. In Kolkata, the imams of Tipu Sultan and Nakhoda masjids are influential among Urdu-speaking Muslims in minority-dominated Park Circus and Khidirpur belts. However, in Kolkata’s Port area, comprising Khidirpur, Ekbalpur, Watganj, Metiabruz …

Saeed Naqvi | Does a ‘liberal’ Muslim leader have a future in India’s politics?
4 years, 3 months ago

Saeed Naqvi | Does a ‘liberal’ Muslim leader have a future in India’s politics?

Deccan Chronicle  

The quest for a liberal Muslim was always a contradiction in terms. If Amit Shah hadn’t made it his life’s mission to oust or substantially diminish “Didi” and her TMC, Muslims may well have risked a breach in their absolute support for her. How can the Congress point fingers at Mr Owaisi’s “pro-BJP stand” when it reduced senior leader Ghulam …

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