-ThePrint.in The BJP seems to have overturned the game of rival political parties claiming to be the harbinger of social justice and welfare on their own turf. Caste and religion remained dominant factors in Uttar Pradesh assembly election. And the political parties mobilised voters with social engineering and developmental discourse both. Hence, it becomes essential to investigate the social profile of the new UP legislature. I provide a descriptive analysis of the newly...
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No wilting heat of farmers’ rage -Priscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu Limited impact in western Uttar Pradesh’s sugarcane belt After attracting thousands of farmers from Punjab and Uttar Pradesh to join a year-long agitation, farm union leaders were largely unable to leverage that mass support to tilt the results in the Assembly polls. In Punjab, the union leaders who fought the elections are set to lose their deposits. In U.P., where the wider Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) platform campaigned against the BJP...
More »31 Muslims (4.07%) out of 761 successful UPSC candidates
-MuslimMirror.com New Delhi: 31 Muslim students have cleared Civil Services (Main) Examination, 2020. Sadaf Choudhary who ranked 23, has secured the highest rank among Muslim candidates. They constitute 4.07 per cent out of the total 761 successful candidates. The number of successful Muslim candidates has reduced this year in comparison to last year as a total of 42 had cleared the civil services exam in the 2019 batch. Shubham Kumar, an IIT Bombay...
More »Bihar alliance without a single elected Muslim -Nalin Verma
-The Telegraph The state's largest minority community has held key ministerial and other constitutional posts whether under the rule of Congress, Samyukta Socialist Party, Janata Party, Janata Dal or the RJD Patna: Bihar has for the first time since Independence got a ruling coalition without a single MLA from its largest minority community. None of the four parties in the National Democratic Alliance — the BJP, Janata Dal United, Hindustani Awam Morcha Secular...
More »Political sidelining of Muslims holds ominous signs -Afroz Alam
-The Economic Times At a little over 14%, India has the third-largest Muslim population in the world. Are Indian Muslims confronting the void? Political parties are no longer engaging with Muslims like they used to. This process of withdrawal and fracturing began with the 2014 Lok Sabha elections and carries on in 2019. Globally, the pathologisation of Muslims began after 9/11, which entrenched Islamophobia, and moved the discourse around minorities entirely towards terror,...
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