Jaipur, July 27 (IANS): The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), led by Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday announced that it will contest the upcoming Panchayat and Municipal body elections in Rajasthan. The move marks party’s first organised attempt to contest grassroots elections in the state. Rajasthan’s local elections have traditionally been dominated by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress. AIMIM plans to field official party nominees as well as supported candidates, in an …
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New Delhi, July 26 (IANS) Leaders across the political spectrum on Sunday hit back at the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) Chief Asaduddin Owaisi’s remark that a “young person should become the Prime Minister”, asserting that it is the citizens who choose the Prime Minister in India, irrespective of his or her age.Addressing a public rally on Saturday, Owaisi said: “In India, 65 per cent of our population is under the age of 35, and 50 per cent of India’s population is under the ag…
Hyderabad, July 16 (IANS) In a shocking development, a Class 2 student of a private school in Hyderabad was asked by a teacher to recite the ‘Kalma’, leading to anger and outrage from the student’s parents and local residents.The incident took place in Hyderabad’s Saidabad area. As the school came under fire from all quarters, the management on Thursday terminated the services of the teacher.The Class 2 student was reportedly assigned the task as a homework activity in his school diary, the …
Hyderabad, July 16 (IANS) A controversy erupted at a private school in Hyderabad following an allegation that a Hindu student of Class 2 was assigned Islamic religious verses as homework.The student was asked to recite ‘Kalima’ and ‘Sura Fatiha’. The incident occurred at a school in the Saidabad area. The parents of the student confronted the school management, questioning the appropriateness of such an act within an academic environment. The parents lodged their protest with the managem…
Hyderabad, July 15 (IANS) The Election Commission of India on Wednesday revised the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) schedule for Telangana, with the house-to-house visit by BLOs being extended from July 24 to August 3. The poll panel has also extended the rationalisation and rearrangement of polling stations from July 24 to August 3.The draft publication of rolls has been extended to August 10, and the period of filing claims and objections will now be from August 10 to September 9. The notice …
Hyderabad, July 10 (IANS) AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Friday met Telangana Chief Secretary Sanjay Jaju and demanded that the State government consider issuing Permanent Residence Certificate (PRC) or Family Register Certificate to electors of the state in the ongoing SIR in Telangana. The Hyderabad MP said he, along with Faheem Qureshi, president and vice chairman of Telangana Minority Residential Educational Institutions Society (TMREIS), met the Chief Secretary and demanded that the Re…
Hyderabad, July 7 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s Telangana unit has alleged “systematic deletion” of voters from North India in Hyderabad and has sought the intervention of the State Chief Electoral Officer. Raising serious concerns regarding the integrity of the electoral rolls in Hyderabad, the BJP alleged that the ruling Congress party and the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) have colluded to “systematically” remove the names of Hindi-speaking residents and those of N…
Hyderabad, July 6 (IANS) AIMIM President Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday urged the Telangana government to immediately issue Permanent Residence Certificates (PRCs) for the poor, saying many lack documents and risk exclusion from the voter list during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR). The Hyderabad MP wanted to know what is stopping the state government from issuing PRCs. He said that if the ruling party is not realising that the poor of Telangana lack documents, then it is totally cut of…
Hyderabad, July 2 (IANS) Management of a private junior college in Hyderabad’s Old City area has lodged a police complaint against a BJP leader and his supporters for barging into the college and threatening staff to show records, alleging that children of Rohingya Muslims were studying there.According to the complaint lodged by the principal of Nooria Cooperative Junior College with Santosh Nagar police station, 30-40 workers led by a BJP leader from Maheshawaram, Andela Sriramulu Yadav, ente…
Lucknow, July 1 (IANS) All India Shia Personal Law Board (AISPLB) spokesperson Maulana Yasoob Abbas on Wednesday said that All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) President Asaduddin Owaisi should not interfere in the internal politics of Uttar Pradesh following the latter’s remarks over the investigation into Ayodhya’s Ram Temple donation embezzlement case.Addressing a rally in Uttar Pradesh’s Bijnor on Monday, Owaisi, while taking a jibe at the Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar P…