Muslim Vote Bank

Alleging that the Congress only used Muslims as a vote bank, BRS president and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Wednesday asked under whose watch the demolition of Babri Masjid happened.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in an exclusive interview with NDTV said he does not indulge in "vote bank politics" and so, unlike the Congress, will not link politics with issues linked to the Muslim community.

The Congress had only used the Muslim community as a vote bank while doing nothing concrete for their welfare, Janata Dal (S) leader and former Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy has said.

BJP leader and Karnataka Education Minister BC Nagesh says teacher shouldn't have made the remark, "but now it's just being politicised, pandering to a vote bank"

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today hit out at rivals, saying they only bothered about "vote-bank politics" and did not pay attention to the "mountain-like" problems faced by Muslim women due to evil practices like triple talaq.

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's appeal to Bengal's Muslims not to divide their votes indicates that she has lost their support, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today. While on the subject, he also pointed out that a similar appeal to Hindus

In the 1980s, Congress had an opportunity to do justice to Muslim women, however, vote bank was more important for the party and not justice to women, said Union Minister Smriti Irani on the 1st anniversary of law against triple Talaq on Friday.

Triple talaq was given "political patronage" by "merchants of vote bank", and it was the Narendra Modi government that made it a criminal offence thus bolstering self-reliance and self-confidence among Muslim women, Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said today.

Ahead of the tabling of the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in parliament today by Home Minister Amit Shah, the government was accused of attempting an "invisible partition" of Hindus and Muslims by former ally Shiv Sena. In a sharp editorial in its mouthpiece Saamana, the Shiv Sena has also questioned whether "selective acceptance" of Hindu illegal i...

A senior BJP leader in Karnataka has made a controversial statement that could snowball into a political row days ahead of the national election that starts this month. KS Eshwarappa, who was the deputy chief minister of Karnataka when the BJP was in power, said his party will not field Muslim candidates in the state.

"Keep your Ali, Bajrang Bali is enough for us." This was how Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath responded to a recent video that showed senior Congress leader Kamal Nath asking Muslim leaders to ensure as much as 90 per cent votes from the minority community for his party. While the BJP grabbed the opportunity to declare that Mr Nath w...

Terming the ordinance making the practice of triple talaq or instant divorce a punishable offenceas historic,BJP president Amit Shah today said it is also a matter of introspection and guilt for those political parties which forced Muslim women to suffer from it due to their vote bank politics.

Terming the proposed pre-poll alliance between the All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen (AIMIM) and Prakash Ambedkar-led Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh (BBM) as "bogus", the Shiv Sena today said that such a political move is not a good omen.

Starting his two-day Uttar Pradesh visit with a scathing attack on the opposition, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today raked up the claim that Rahul Gandhi had recently called the Congress 'a party of Muslims'. He also questioned the motive for arch rivals, Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav, to join hands for the 2019 elections and described it as an effo...

Congress today accused the Prime Minister and the BJP of politicising the triple talaq issue and even suggested that the party was trying to drive a wedge between Muslim women and their husbands to create a new vote bank.

Alleging that the Congress only used Muslims as a vote bank, BRS president and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Wednesday asked under whose watch the demolition of Babri Masjid happened.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in an exclusive interview with NDTV said he does not indulge in "vote bank politics" and so, unlike the Congress, will not link politics with issues linked to the Muslim community.

The Congress had only used the Muslim community as a vote bank while doing nothing concrete for their welfare, Janata Dal (S) leader and former Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy has said.

BJP leader and Karnataka Education Minister BC Nagesh says teacher shouldn't have made the remark, "but now it's just being politicised, pandering to a vote bank"

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today hit out at rivals, saying they only bothered about "vote-bank politics" and did not pay attention to the "mountain-like" problems faced by Muslim women due to evil practices like triple talaq.

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's appeal to Bengal's Muslims not to divide their votes indicates that she has lost their support, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today. While on the subject, he also pointed out that a similar appeal to Hindus

In the 1980s, Congress had an opportunity to do justice to Muslim women, however, vote bank was more important for the party and not justice to women, said Union Minister Smriti Irani on the 1st anniversary of law against triple Talaq on Friday.

Triple talaq was given "political patronage" by "merchants of vote bank", and it was the Narendra Modi government that made it a criminal offence thus bolstering self-reliance and self-confidence among Muslim women, Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said today.

Ahead of the tabling of the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in parliament today by Home Minister Amit Shah, the government was accused of attempting an "invisible partition" of Hindus and Muslims by former ally Shiv Sena. In a sharp editorial in its mouthpiece Saamana, the Shiv Sena has also questioned whether "selective acceptance" of Hindu illegal i...

A senior BJP leader in Karnataka has made a controversial statement that could snowball into a political row days ahead of the national election that starts this month. KS Eshwarappa, who was the deputy chief minister of Karnataka when the BJP was in power, said his party will not field Muslim candidates in the state.

"Keep your Ali, Bajrang Bali is enough for us." This was how Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath responded to a recent video that showed senior Congress leader Kamal Nath asking Muslim leaders to ensure as much as 90 per cent votes from the minority community for his party. While the BJP grabbed the opportunity to declare that Mr Nath w...

Terming the ordinance making the practice of triple talaq or instant divorce a punishable offenceas historic,BJP president Amit Shah today said it is also a matter of introspection and guilt for those political parties which forced Muslim women to suffer from it due to their vote bank politics.

Terming the proposed pre-poll alliance between the All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen (AIMIM) and Prakash Ambedkar-led Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh (BBM) as "bogus", the Shiv Sena today said that such a political move is not a good omen.

Starting his two-day Uttar Pradesh visit with a scathing attack on the opposition, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today raked up the claim that Rahul Gandhi had recently called the Congress 'a party of Muslims'. He also questioned the motive for arch rivals, Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav, to join hands for the 2019 elections and described it as an effo...

Congress today accused the Prime Minister and the BJP of politicising the triple talaq issue and even suggested that the party was trying to drive a wedge between Muslim women and their husbands to create a new vote bank.