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MUSLIM REPRESENTATION IN ASSAM
Assembly election results 2026: Assam, Bengal verdicts reshape minority political calculusThe recent electoral developments in Assam and West Bengal have sparked a vibrant dialogue about the significance of the Muslim electorate....- Some parties trying to obstruct women's quota: PM ModiAddressing rallies in Barpeta, Hojai and Dibrugarh for the upcoming assembly election, PM Modi said the special Parliamentary session on th...
- Assam assembly polls: All major players in the reckoning in Barak valleyFollowing the 2023 delimitation exercise in the state, the number of assembly seats in the valley was reduced to 13 from 15. The BJP, its a...
- Assam Assembly Polls: A contest of coalitions, calculations and cloutAssam gears up for assembly polls with major alliances forming. The BJP-led NDA faces a Congress-backed grand alliance. Key issues include ...
- Assam: Opposition alleges voter list manipulation during SR exercise; CM Sarma denies claimsAssam's Chief Minister defends a voter list revision exercise. He states no genuine Indian citizens are being targeted. Opposition parties,...
- Congress treats Muslims like slaves, says Assam MP after quitting partyKhaleque, a two-time MLA and one-time MP, had sent his resignation from primary membership of Congress to its national president on Friday,...
- Amid outreach, BJP minority wing targets bigger share in Lok Sabha ticketsThese constituencies include Wayanad, which was represented by Rahul Gandhi. Former Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi recently did an outr...
- With Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi's Rajya Sabha term ending, no Muslim among BJP MPsOver the decades, Muslim BJP MPs have had a nominal presence in Parliament. Naqvi himself has been a Rajya Sabha member for three terms, Na...
- No Modi wave this time, BJP polarising Hindus by showing my face, invoking Mughals: Badruddin AjmalDismissing as "baseless" the BJP's charge of communalism against his All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF), Badruddin Ajmal claimed "no...
- Clause 6 panel of Assam accord must reserve 21 assembly seats for indigenous communities: CommitteeAs per Assam accord the date of detection and deportation of foreigners is March 25, 1971 irrespective of religious affiliation, while for ...
- Centre to identify illegal immigrants, deport them: Amit ShahCurrently, the NRC is being updated under the strict monitoring of the Supreme Court in Assam and July 31 has been set as a deadline for fi...
- We consolidated votes on development, governance and Assam's identity: Ram MadhavWe turned the demography into a challenge and our plan forced Congress and AIUDF to fight each other in Assam, says BJP general secretary R...
- Poke Me: Three big upcoming assembly polls can be seen as '25%-plus Muslim elections'It's also worth noting that the BJP has put up as many as nine Muslim candidates in Assam. None of them is a likely winner, but the symboli...
- Who’s afraid of Asaduddin Owaisi? Congress, Lalu, Mulayam, Mamata ...MIM leader, Asaduddin Owaisi refuses to be embarrassed by his focus, or faith, or his route map in the competitive jungle of democratic asp...
- Muslim population rose by 24 per cent during 2001-11The growth rate of Muslim population in the country was around 29 per cent between 1991 and 2001, higher than the national average.
- Ethnicity-based politics: Why Assam’s adivasis are soft targetsAdivasis, say observers, suffer because they are caught in the vortex of Assam's ethnicity-based politics. The BTAD has tried to use the ad...
- Modi government and opposition's role: Focus must shift to India's inclusiveness and diversityAs Gujarat CM for over 10 years, he ran a government in which Muslims never found any representation. Not was there any Muslim candidate in...
- Elections 2014: Muslim representation to be low in next Lok SabhaThe 16th Lok Sabha will have one of the lowest representation for Muslims with just about 20 of them emerging victorious in the Lok Sabha p...
- Assam: Control over land key reason for clash between Bodos, MuslimsA primer on the continuing ethnic conflict between the indigenous Bodos and Bengali-speaking Muslim settlers in western Assam.
- So, who is the culprit?The tabling of the Rajinder Sachar Commission report, which provides data on the dismal socio-economic status of Muslims, is sure to let lo...
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