Sikandar Azam 2014 Lok Sabha recorded the lowest share of Muslim Member of Parliament (M.P) in the Indian Parliament. One of the major reasons for decline was the rise of Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) which got a huge victory in the general election. BJP gave less than 2 percent tickets to Muslim candidates and none...
The lives of Mohammad Sajid and his family, residents of Bhoop Singh Colony, village Bhondsi, rural Guragaon, took an unexpected turn on the evening of 21st March. It was an otherwise lazy afternoon of Holi which was melting into evening, when Sajid, his sons and some of his relatives who were visitng them on the...
Sadatullah Hussaini has been elected Ameer (National President) of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind. He was elected by Jamaat’s 157 member Markazi Majlis-e Numanidgan (Council of Representatives) after thorough deliberations on all aspects. He has been elected for a 4 year term from April 2019 till March 2023. Syed Sadatullah Hussaini is former National President of Jamaat’s student...
India begins its month-long general election process next week in what many regard as a heated race that will either make or break the Modi era. Prime Minister Narendra Modi of the BJP was elected by a landslide half a decade ago on promises of restoring India’s long-lost international standing and turning it into a...
The colour of the BJP in the Kashmir Valley is not saffron but green. The BJP has issued poll-related advertisements in local newspapers that don’t have even a trace of saffron but is full of green, a colour preferred by many in Kashmir because of its association with Islam and Pakistan. Many believe that green...
India’s claim that one of its fighter pilots shot down a Pakistani F-16 fighter jet in an aerial battle between the two nuclear powers in February appears to be wrong. Two senior U.S. defense officials with direct knowledge of the situation told Foreign Policy that U.S. personnel recently counted Islamabad’s F-16s and found none missing. The findings...
Sharjeel Imam The onus of defeating right-wing extremists already falls on Muslim voters. Now liberals expect them to abandon a winning candidate in favour of a social-media celebrity, Kanhaiya Kumar. This ‘fight against fascism’ in the general election has led to bizarre developments. In Begusarai, the ‘anti-fascist’ intellectual lobby has put all its weight behind...
Jashwanth Jessie Not many people know that my friend Rohith Vemula was once a diehard supporter of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). Before he joined the Ambedkar Students’ Association (ASA) at the University of Hyderabad, he was a firebrand leader of the Students’ Federation of India (SFI), affiliated to the CPI(M). His disillusionment with...
M T News Network,New Delhi: A Sayeed, former President of Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) passed away Tuesday evening at 5 PM, at a private hospital in Calicut, where he was undergoing treatment for cancer. He was 64. Sayeed was also the National Executive Council Member of Popular Front of India (PFI), which he...
Milat Times News Delhi:With the accused in the 2015 lynching of Mohammad Akhlaq on the suspicion of possession of beef sitting in the front row, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath invoked the incident at a rally in his village Bisara in Greater Noida on Sunday. “Who doesn’t remember what happened in Bisara? The way...