REGIONAL PARTIES

Regional Parties: Are they king-makers and game-changers in Indian political scenario? As India goes into the campaigning mode for the ensuing Lok Sabha elections, the hotly debated issue in political discourse these days is whether the regional parties are going to play king-makers and game-changers in the 2019 polls. The question cannot be ignored since […]

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ELECTORAL REPRESENTATION OF MUSLIMS IN ASSEMBLY/ LOK SABHA: 1951-2014

Presented at the National Workshop on “Political Empowerment of Muslims in Telangana State: Opportunities and Challenges” at University of Hyderabad on 29th November 2016 By: Syed Amin Jafri One of the key objectives of this workshop is to understand the causes for low levels of political empowerment of Muslims in terms of political representation, political […]

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GHMC Maha Kutami

Hyderabad: Notwithstanding the no-holds-barred, high-voltage, last-minute blitzkrieg by the star campaigners of Mahakutami constituents and BJP, they are unlikely to register any successes. The TRS and AIMIM seem poised to make a clean sweep of the 24 Assembly seats spread over 4 districts in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation area. Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s […]

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Chandrababu Naidu celebrates 58th birthday

Telugu Desam Party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu turned 58 on Sunday. A large number of party leaders and activists, including sitting legislators, Parliamentarians and former ministers, greeted him at his Jubilee Hills residence. They offered him bouquets, garlands, sweets and fruits. Party leaders also organised ‘annadanam’ (providing food to […]

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AP: Chandrababu Naidu kicks off state-wide yatra

Telugu Desam Party president and former chief minister Chandrababu Naidu kicked off his 100-day, state-wide yatra on Monday. Naidu set out on the yatra in a specially built campaign bus from Matammagudi (local temple) in a Dalit colony in Rayalapuram village in his native Chittoor district, after seeking divine blessings of Lord Venkateswara at the famed Tirumala-Tirupati Devasthanam. Senior […]

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