All India Majlis E Ittehadul Muslimeen

Electoral compulsion behind Mamata's volte-face on illegal immigrants: Owaisi's rising clout poses challenges for Bengal CM

To understand the impulses at work that prompted Mamata to make such a statement, we need to put her comments in context of her opposition to the Centre's Citizenship Amendment Act. The Bengal chief minister has been a staunch and vocal critic of the Citizenship Amendment Act and has vowed not to let CAA (and NRC, if and when it is promulgated) be implemented in Bengal. This is curious.

At anti-CAA rally in Karnataka's Kalaburagi, AIMIM leader Waris Pathan says 15 crore people 'can dominate 100 crore'

'The time has now come for us to unite and achieve freedom. Remember we are 15 crore but can dominate over 100 crores,' said Pathan while addressing an anti-CAA rally.

Mamata-Owaisi row: In her desperation to prevent split in Muslim vote bank, West Bengal CM has ended up giving a boost to AIMIM

Politics of identity has come home to roost in West Bengal. The war of words between Mamata Banerjee and Asaduddin Owaisi is indicative of the squeezing space for so-called 'secular parties' that have long carried out identity politics under the garb of 'secularism'.

'A crime is a crime': Shashi Tharoor, Asaduddin Owaisi slam Mohan Bhagwat's comment describing lynchings as 'western construct'

Earlier in the day, Bhagwat said lynching is a 'western construct' and should not be used in the Indian context to defame the country.

Kerala Governor-designate Arif Mohammad Khan blames regressive identity politics, 'minority psychosis' for backwardness among Muslims

In Arif Mohammad Khan’s opinion, the ignorance of the subcontinent’s cultural history is often visible in its politics.

AIMIM's Mumbai MLA Waris Pathan taken into police custody after offering special prayer for Kashmir, Kolhapur flood victims

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen's sole Mumbai MLA Waris Pathan was taken into police custody Friday by Mumbai's Nagpada police

AIMIM appoints Imtiaz Jaleel as Maharashtra unit president just a few months before state holds Assembly election

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul-Muslimeen has appointed Lok Sabha MP from Aurangabad Imtiaz Jaleel as its new Maharashtra state president. The move comes ahead of Assembly elections in Maharashtra scheduled later this year.

'If Narendra Modi goes to two temples, KCR will go to six': Asaduddin Owaisi claims BJP's Hindutva cannot defeat Telangana CM

Asaduddin Owaisi on Friday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi cannot electorally defeat Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao as the latter is an equally staunch Hindu.

Heckling Asaduddin Owaisi in Parliament with chants of Jai Shri Ram smacks of an age-old idea of muscular, divisive Hindutva

This is not the first time Jai Shri Ram was used as a rallying call to assert the idea of a muscular Hindu Rashtra. The chant has long been used to create a divisive politics of hate, starting with the violence in Ayodhya and the destruction of the Babri Masjid.

Asaduddin Owaisi backs Kamal Haasan's 'India's first terrorist was Hindu' remark, supports KCR's Federal Front pitch

Owaisi was referring to Kamal Haasan's statement on Monday, when he called Nathuram Godse, the man who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi, as the "first Hindu terrorist" in independent India.