US election: Gaza emerges as top issue for many New York MuslimsAt New York City's Islamic Cultural Centre, Muslim worshippers express concern over the Gaza situation overshadowing domestic issues in the...
03 Nov, 2024, 03.55 PM IST
Lok Sabha Polls: Nagina-Bijnor puzzle for Muslim votersIn 2019, both seats, which have a considerable population of Muslim and SC community, had gone to BSP in BSP-SP-RLD alliance. Since the tri...
17 Apr, 2024, 12.40 AM IST
UP BJP mulls 'constituency-wise' strategy for the 27 seats with sizeable Muslim populationThe dominant Jat community in the region has an alternative in the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), but BJP leaders said the party is mulling a foo...
19 Oct, 2021, 09.30 AM IST
Trinamool confident of beating BJP challenge, BJP is equally upbeatBirbhum, located near the Jharkhand border was a Maoist hotbed till 2012.
26 Apr, 2019, 09.19 AM IST
Muslim population in Varanasi share mixed feelings about PM Narendra Modi"If the PM has come, we will welcome him with all our heart despite having some fundamental differences with the BJP. The onus is on Modi t...
26 Apr, 2019, 09.02 AM IST
Muslim voters seek alternative to Congress' soft hindutva in this coastal seatQuite naturally, the Congress’ “soft Hindutva” strategy has caused disappointment among the Muslim community.
17 Apr, 2019, 03.40 PM IST
Huge Muslim turnout at PM Narendra Modi roadshow may not translate into votesMuslims, comprising 20 per cent of total voters, appear to be solidly behind the Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance.
05 Mar, 2017, 05.11 PM IST
Bundelkhand’s most prosperous Muslim Rajput community places bets on Brahmin candidateAmong Bundelkhand's large Muslim population, these Thakurs have clout, though historians aren't certain if they resulted from mass conversi...
20 Feb, 2017, 10.52 AM IST
Uttar Pradesh polls: Mayawati eyes SP's Muslim votesBSP’s national president and former chief minister Mayawati has addressed five rallies at Agra, Azamgarh, Saharanpur, Allahabad and Lucknow...
17 Oct, 2016, 12.17 AM IST
New kid on the block: MIM steps out of Nizamland, enters MaharashtraSpearheading MIM's Maharashtra foray is Akbaruddin Owaisi, MLA from Chandrayan Gutta, Hyderabad, and a member of the Telangana assembly.
11 Oct, 2014, 11.06 AM IST
AAP and Congress vying for slums, Muslim voteWhile Muslims have been traditionally rallying behind Congress, AAP hopes to make inroads. In the low income group, the contest is largely ...
10 Apr, 2014, 11.28 AM IST
Gurgaon’s poll fate ‘caste’ in stoneAhirs and Meo Muslims have played a key role in determining the course of elections here. The reason: these two communities account for mor...
27 Mar, 2014, 11.46 AM IST
Muzaffarnagar riots cast shadow over SP meetMuzaffarnagar riots cast a shadow over the two-day national executive meeting of Samajwadi Party here with leaders emphasising on the need ...
12 Sep, 2013, 07.27 PM IST
Congress’s diatribes against BJP’s Narendra Modi may prove counterproductiveVoter sentiment is lining up behind Modi or against him. The Congress is mindful of this and is attacking him in a manner that seems to bet...
24 Jul, 2013, 01.01 PM IST
Congress's diatribes against Narendra Modi may prove counterproductiveNarendra Modi has emerged as the central figure of the election and Rajnath Singh, has all but named him as the party's prime ministerial c...
24 Jul, 2013, 11.14 AM IST
- UP polls to be litmus test for Mulayam Singh Yadav
The Etah rally, expected to be Samajwadi chief’s call to UP voters to overthrow Mayawati government, will set in motion a high-voltage batt...
16 Nov, 2011, 01.14 PM IST
BSP, SP start manoeuvring to milk Ayodhya verdictThe Ayodhya judgment has not reached the parties yet but the cloak and dagger style UP politics has reared its head with a concerted attemp...
02 Oct, 2010, 11.18 AM IST