Mahmood madani and praveen togadia biography

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    Bajrang Dal, Vishva Hindu Parishad are militant orgnisation: CIA Factbook

    United States’ intelligence organisation Central Investigative Agency (CIA) has categorised India’s right-wing organisations Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal as “religious militant groups”. The mentions have been made in CIA’s ‘world factbook’ which is a document released by the organisation to provide information on various issues like government, economy and history of countries. The CIA document listed Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh as a nationalist organisation. While Kashmir’s Hurriyat Conference was mentioned as a separatist group.

    The World Factbook provides CIA a view on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.

    However, the VHP has raised strong objection over the declaration and threatened a worldwide agitation against the CIA if they don&#

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    Haj subsidy

    Subsidy given to Hajj pilgrims bygd Govt of India

    The Haj subsidy was a subsidy based on religion that was given to Hajj pilgrims bygd the Government of India in the form of discounted air fare so that a pilgrim can fly to Mecca for Hajj.[1] The policy had always been controversial until it was abolished beneath the ruling of the Indian judicial organs.[2]

    In the Post-colonial era, the INC-led Government of India enacted the schema in 1959 with the Hajj Act.[3] The subsidy initially applied to Indian Muslim pilgrims traveling for religious reasons to Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iraq, Iran and Jordan by road and bygd sea. Expanded Haj subsidy started in 1954, as an idea initiated bygd the then government, with flights between Mumbai and Jeddah. Additional flight legs were added over the years, and since 1984, all haj traffic has been shared by Air India and Saudia, the national carriers of India and Saudi Arabia. The monopoly of these airlines had

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    Are Muslim voters in Gujarat really supporting Narendra Modi?

    Among the small number of apparent certainties of an Indian election is the myth of an en bloc Muslim vote, which goes to whichever political party looks most likely to prevent the BJP from coming to power. The Congress, the Samajwadi Party, the Bahujan Samaj Party have often been the recipients of this vote.


    So when Mahmood Madani, general secretary of the Jamiat-Ulama-i-Hind, claimed earlier this week in a television interview that some Muslim voters in Gujarat had voted for Narendra Modi, and that fewer Muslim youth were likely to be incarcerated in Gujarati jails than in Congress-ruled states, that myth wobbled and shook.

    More striking, however, is that unlike in the past, where other Muslim leaders had to face a strong backlash for any favourable comparisons of Modi, Madani seemed to have found some support.

    Changing Demands

    Tufail Ahmad, director, South Asia Studies Project at the Middle East Media Research I
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