Topic: 2024 election
Three MLAs withdraw support to BJP govt in Haryanaa, Congress demands Assembly election under President’s rule
In a major setback for the BJP government in Haryana, three independent MLAs who were backing the Nayab Singh Saini-led BJP government have switched their allegiance to back Congress candidates in the Lok Sabha elections.
Lok Sabha elections: Third phase of polling begins in 93 constituencies
The third phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections began on Tuesday, with 93 parliamentary constituencies in 11 states and four Union territories going to polls.
Who is Shahnawaz Ali Raihan, Oxford researcher, anti-CAA protester running on TMC ticket in Malda Dakshin?
Raihan is a doctoral fellow at Oxford University pursuing his DPhil from Oxford University’s St Antony’s College since 2018 under the supervision of noted historian Faisal Devji around “Between Marx and Muhammed-Muslims and Communism in Bengal” and has been a staunch critic and opponent of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
In Pictures: “Need change, want to live peacefully,” say Ahmedabad voters
Three days before Gujarat goes to the polls to elect Lok Sabha members, Maktoob’s Muhammed Noufal PM and Sahid Faris talked to the voters of Ahmedabad. While some say they support Narendra Modi because he is the strongest man, others say they need a change in government so they can live a peaceful life.
“BJP doesn’t want our vote or presence; Congress knows we have no choice. We vote for Congress out of necessitude,” Gujarat genocide survivors
Twenty-two years after the Muslim genocide in Gujarat, the Muslims of Gujarat still live in fear. The survivors of the Gujarat Muslim genocide told Maktoob that the BJP, which orchestrated the pogrom, neither wants their vote nor wants to see them, while the Congress understands that the Muslims have no other option. "We are voting for Congress out of necessity," say the survivors.
Gujarat: More than 500 Muslim voters removed from voter list, “deliberately sidelined,” they say
At least 575 Muslim fishermen in Gujarat’s Devbhoomi Dwarka district will not be able to vote as their names were deleted from the voter list following the demolition of ports in Gandhvi and Navadra villages of the district.
