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Showing posts with label Politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Politics. Show all posts
Thursday, December 08, 2022

Stop calling parties 'Vote cutters': More political parties are better for democracy and also for India, Indian Muslims

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By Shams Ur Rehman Alavi It's time to stop calling parties 'vote cutters'. In Central India, Gondwana party, GMS & JAYS don...
Tuesday, October 05, 2021

Indian politics: Reasons that people keep electing politicians, leaders repeatedly irrespective of performance

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Shams Ur Rehman Alavi It's often seen as a mystery that people keep electing non-performing or bad performing leaders and then lament, y...
Monday, September 13, 2021

Time for a new, articulate Muslim leadership to appear: Lack of leaders in Lucknow is a cause of concern

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Shams Ur Rehman Alavi While there is considerable interest regarding politics in the society, the lack of initiative towards entering politi...
Wednesday, June 09, 2021

Bad economy can't make people see reason, turn them 'humane': Can't checkmate communalism with this bogus theory

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Shams Ur Rehman Alavi In wake of Haryana 'maha panchayat'--a huge gathering in support of those arrested for lynching a youth, I mus...
Saturday, May 22, 2021

Role of Dr Abdul Jaleel Faridi and his Muslim Majlis in Uttar Pradesh, Muslim politics of North India

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Shams Ur Rehman Alavi As we talk about Muslim politics and leadership, the role of Dr AJ Faridi and his party, Muslim Majlis, we need to fir...
Sunday, February 28, 2021

Indifference of Congress, secular parties' wings: Inability to act, confront or even speak up against right-wing groups' lawlessness acts

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Shams Ur Rehman Alavi The inability and indifference of Congress and other secular parties' wings to confront or at least take stand aga...
Thursday, February 25, 2021

AIMIM's electoral footprint in India: Asaduddin Owaisi turning Hyderabad-based outfit into a pan-Indian political party

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From a local political outfit, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) has increased its electoral footprint. Once a party in a tiny ...
Friday, February 19, 2021

Magic formula behind BJP's popularity despite price rise, hike in cost of Petrol, LPG, unemployment or issues on the border

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Shams Ur Rehman Alavi Time and again, people wonder and discuss that why price rise, fuel hike, unemployment, mishandling of major issues, j...
Thursday, February 18, 2021

Politicians who buck anti-incumbency even after successive terms: Leaders, CMs who know the trick, leave no other choice for voters

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Shams Ur Rehman Alavi Disenchantment with a ruling party can come easily.  After all, how many citizens can feel that they are in a state of...
Thursday, January 07, 2021

Right-wing majoritarianism can put countries at risk of law-and-order breakdown: Derailing democracies and parallels between India and USA

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Shams Ur Rehman Alavi The mob that gathered at Capitol Hill in United States of America, seems to have surprised Indian elite.  There was ...
Monday, December 14, 2020

Dealing with Dissent: Term a person 'troublemaker', demolish house or attach property, make entire family suffer

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Shams Ur Rehman Alavi Unfortunately, it is becoming common to initiate proceedings for attachment of property or ordering demolition of a ho...
Friday, November 13, 2020

How to form political connections, gain clout and establish yourself in society: Learn the most basic model from Mr Agrawal

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  Shams Ur Rehman Alavi Agrawal Sb is just an 'active' citizen. Always having important numbers & ready to make call to police s...
Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Indian politics: From blaming 'foreign hand' for troubles to 'inventing' enemies to for polarization, inflaming passions

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Till 1980s, national politics was about blaming 'external hand' for any disaster, failure and to divert attention. It was so common ...
Tuesday, August 11, 2020

More Indian Muslims need to take up politics as full-time career: Reasons Muslims are not successful in politics in India

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Shams Ur Rehman Alavi You often get to hear arguments about reasons Muslims are not doing well in politics, or about dwindling representatio...
Tuesday, August 04, 2020

How Indian middle-class, a product of institutions built in Congress era, turned against it

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It's often discussed that how the urban middle-class that had emerged due to the institutions that were built in India, after independen...
Saturday, June 20, 2020

From Hinduism to Hindutva: How fundamentalism changed religion and society in India

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Shams Ur Rehman Alavi In early 90s, right-wing leaders were addressing a public rally near my house. I was passing by and stopped....
Friday, June 19, 2020

Dealing with 'dissent' in democracies: 'Discredit, defame, destroy' is the strategy but a bad one

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Shams Ur Rehman Alavi In an ideal or even a functional democracy, there must be freedom to speak up, question and criticise government...
Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Hypocrisy over cow slaughter in India: Muslims don't consume beef but are unfairly blamed, constantly targeted

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The Congress workers said that they slaughtered the cow to protest the beef ban. In Kerala and many other states, beef is consumed by t...
Monday, March 13, 2017

BJP victory in Uttar Pradesh: How much media contributed to the wave?

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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has swept the Assembly election. The scale of victory has been unprecedented. BJP and its allies won 32...
Friday, February 24, 2017

AIMIM Arrival Increases Muslim representation in Mumbai Municipal Corporation: The 'Votes Will Split' Theory Demolished

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It was repeatedly being said that AIMIM's entry would hurt Muslim representation as the community's votes would further be div...