Thursday, March 28, 2024

Topic: 2019 Election

E. T. Mohammed Basheer MP says his party for proportionate community reservation in parliament

E T Mohammed Basheer is a prominent Muslim parliamentarian in India known for his timely interventions. Recently he spoke against the triple Talaq bill and voted against the reservation for upper-castes in the parliament. Here, he speaks to Twayyib Rajab. Edited excerpts:

AMU in question again

This is not the first time when something like this has happened. Since the past few years ever since the BJP came into power not just Aligarh Muslim University but all the major universities of India became a target of malicious propaganda of BJP.

10% reservation for Muslims and 5% for other minorities in election manifesto, students’ body demands

On behalf of students and youth of India, the Students Islamic Organisation of India (SIO) presented a 'Students’ Manifesto' before all the political parties for consideration and inclusion in their respective manifestos and agendas for Election 2019.

Over 12 lakh first time voters from UP for Lok Sabha election

Overall India first time voters form more than 13.3 crore . Even though the voting percentage of youth voters are comparatively low, first time voters consist more than 15 percentage of Indian population.

Mausam Benazir Noor, two-time Congress MP from Malda joins Trinamool Congress

Mausam Benazir Noor, niece of former Union minister, late A B A Gani Khan Chowdhury, and two-time MP from Malda Lok Sabha constituency, joined the Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Monday.

Kept Congress out of SP-BSP alliance to correct poll arithmetic, says Akhilesh Yadav

“If you take out the number of seats in Uttar Pradesh, you will notice that the BJP government doesn’t have the majority. BJP keeps talking about social engineering. So, I also decided to correct my poll arithmetic and did it through this alliance,” Akhilesh told PTI during his visit to Kolkata for the January 19 united opposition rally.