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TopicMuslim votes

Topic: muslim votes

‘Who else is there to vote for?’ — why Muslim clerics are rallying behind TMC in West Bengal

Muslim clerics are holding meetings to devise a plan with one aim — to ensure TMC’s victory. Community leaders & political analysts believe state's Muslims have little choice.   

Owaisi looks secure in his Hyderabad fort but Muslims are exploring options elsewhere in Telangana

Of total 119 seats, Muslim votes are treated as decisive — depending on local equations — in another 20-25 seats apart from those of AIMIM. In 2018, a majority of them went to BRS.

Over 60 Muslim BJP candidates win UP municipal polls. Party calls it victory, experts say ‘tokenism’

BJP fielded 395 Muslim candidates. Party now says community no longer harbours 'doubts' about them, while analysts say BJP has fielded Muslim candidates only in lower level of govt.

‘After Bageshwar Dham drama…’: BJP spokesperson targets Kamal Nath with ‘Muslim votes’ clip. It’s 4 yrs old

The video, tweeted by Prashant Umrao, has over 989 retweets, 2,266 likes and over 30,000 views.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.