With Gujarat, which has a sizeable proportion of tribal population (14.8 per cent), slated to go to the polls later this year, all political parties are making all out efforts to woo tribal voters.The tribal voters can be the game-changers in .
Even as the hijab seemed to be spilling over in other parts of the country despite the Supreme Court’s directive to maintain a status quo, activists of VHP, Bajrang Dal and Hindu Jagran Manch were prevented from vitiating the atmosphere in Surat.
They not only foiled the attempts of anti-social elements to disturb peace and harmony of Barsi village in Alot Tehsil, but they also accorded a grand welcome to Baaratis on arrival to the village.
The hijab controversy, which has rocked Karnataka, has reached Uttar Pradesh amid the ongoing assembly elections with Muslim students taking out protest marches and the Opposition parties alleging that it was a 'conspiracy' to 'polarise' the polls along communal lines. In Jaunpur district of the state, a Muslim girl, a student of a degree college, alleged that she was not
A fact-finding team formed by the Editors Guild of India accuses the state police and administration of displaying a "lack of professionalism and integrity" in dealing with the violence.