AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi has called for quotas for Muslim women in parliament, saying their representation was dangerously low. The Hyderabad MP said this at an election rally at Bihar's Kishanganj, the lone Muslim-majority Lok Sabha seat in the state where the AIMIM's provincial unit chief and MLA Akhtarul Iman is a candidate. Not against women "The BJP-RSS falsely accuse the AIMIM of being against women's participation in politics. As early as 2004, we had fielded a female...
Early this year, the consecration of the Ram Janmabhoomi temple in Ayodhya, which signifies the return of Ram Lalla to the city of his birth, was seen as the deliberate instrumentalisation of Ram’s legacy, with the BJP capitalising on the emotive appeal of Lord Ram across all strata of society ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. The Ram Mandir movement, of course, has been a rallying cry for the party, which has succeeded in positioning itself as champions of ‘the Hindu cause’ by...