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  All India Minorities Front - Wikipedia, den fria encyklopedin
All India Minorities Front är ett politiskt parti i Indien, med bas i den muslimska minoriteten.
I valet till Lok Sabha 1999 hade AIMF två kandidater, den kvinnliga kandidaten Afaque Parvin i Lucknow (628 röster, 0,08%) och Sanjoy Sachdev i New Delhi (177 röster, 0,08%).
I valet till Lok Sabha 2004 hade AIMF en kandidat, Amir Haider Khan från Balrampur (Uttar Pradesh).
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 All India Minorities Front   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
All India Minorities Front is a political party in India, based amongst the muslim minority.
In the election to Lok Sabha 1999 AIMF had two candidates, the female candidate Afaque Parvin in Lucknow (628 votes, 0,08%) and Sanjoy Sachdev in New Delhi (177 votes, 0,08%).
In the Lok Sabha elections 2004 AIMF had one candidate, Amir Haider Khan from Balrampur (Uttar Pradesh).
www.encyclopedia-1.com /a/al/all_india_minorities_front.html   (127 words)

  
 Indian general elections, 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Election Commission of India is responsible for deciding the dates and conducting elections according to constitutional provisions.
According to the magazine India Today, 115.62 billion rupees (approx USD 2.6 billion) were expected to have been spent in campaigning for the elections by all political parties combined.
The two "major parties" in India are the BJP (led by Vajpayee) and the Congress (led by Sonia Gandhi).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Indian_general_elections,_2004   (1974 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Indian general elections, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Elections in India According to its constitution, India is a sovereign, socialist, secular, democratic republic.
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimen (All India Council of the Union of Muslims) is an Islamic political party in India.
India Shining is the name given to overall general feel of economic optimism in India after plentiful rains in 2003.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Indian-general-elections,-2004   (6641 words)

  
 Indiainfo.com -> News -> India -> 'India backs war against terrorism, not on Afghans'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
New Delhi: India is with the US in its campaign in Afghanistan only till it is against terrorism and not against the Afghan people or Muslims and New Delhi is keeping a vigil on the coalition's actions in that country, Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Sushma Swaraj said on October 31.
Asserting that India was with the people of Afghanistan and was among the first countries to offer relief to them, she said New Delhi has not committed any mistake by supporting the US in its campaign against terrorism.
She emphasised that India had committed its support to the US not because of "diplomatic" or "strategic" reasons but because it wanted end to terrorism and had been campaigning to bring cross-border terrorism into international limelight.
newsarchives.indiainfo.com /2001/10/31/31swaraj.html   (331 words)

  
 All India Minorities Front Definition / All India Minorities Front Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
All India Minorities Front is a political party in IndiaThe Republic of India is a large country in South Asia, and one of only two countries in the world with a population of over one billion.
India is additionally the second most populous country in the world and the world's largest democracy.
It is additionally the largest democratic political organisation in the world; the oldest surviving political organisation in India.
www.elresearch.com /All_India_Minorities_Front   (271 words)

  
 india assessment v4   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
India's neighbours are China (Tibet), Bhutan and Nepal to the north, Pakistan to the north-west, and Burma to the north-east.
India controls the state of Jammu and Kashmir, which constitutes two thirds of the region and is the only Muslim majority state in India.
Although India maintained that the exchanges represented a "seasonal" phenomenon, observers in Kashmir reported that the shelling was the heaviest in recent years.
www.asylumlaw.com /docs/india/ind99b_india_ca.htm   (17167 words)

  
 Excelsior... Nation
India is with the US in its campaign in Afghanistan only till it is against terrorism and not against the Afghan people or Muslims and New Delhi is keeping a vigil on the coalition’s actions in that country, Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Sushma Swaraj said here today.
She emphasised that India had committed its support to the US not because of "diplomatic" or "strategic" reasons but because it wanted end to terrorism and had been campaigning to bring the cross-border terrorim into international limelight.
She denied that India was under any kind of pressure from the US and said New Delhi had criticised any wrong statements from Washington, such as the one made by Secretary of State Colin Powell over Kashmir during his recent visit to the continent.
www.dailyexcelsior.com /01nov01/national.htm   (4642 words)

  
 BBC News | SOUTH ASIA | Security pledge for India's minorities
President K R Narayanan and the leader of the opposition Sonia Gandhi both went to the cathedral where his body was lying to pay their respects.
Christians make up about 2% of India's population, and over the past two years there have been a number of attacks on Christians and their property.
In one incident in northern India earlier this month, a Roman Catholic priest was murdered when intruders broke into his house.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/world/south_asia/807877.stm   (403 words)

  
 Rediff On The NeT: United Front to create minority fund for India's minorities
The National Commission for Minorities had also recommended that allocation of a welfare fund for the religious minorities was the need of the hour.
Sources said the UF government is keen to announce a package for the minority communities to ward off the criticism that in its seven months in power the Front has initiated no welfare measures for them.
Granting minority community status to the Jains in India and special programmes for minority-concentrated districts will be part of the initiative.
www.rediff.com /news/jan/17james.htm   (413 words)

  
 Minorities At Risk (MAR)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
India has rejected holding any negotiations that would entail the breakup of the country.
The population of northeast India has seen unprecedented growth during the past century, and that of Assam, for example, increased from 3,290,000 around partition to 19,902,826 in 1981.
Although the AGP government attempted to treat Bodo tribals and other minority groups (within Assam) as part of greater Assamese society, the Bodos opposed the policy because (they perceive) they are the most backward of the various tribes as a result of submersion.
www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/data/indbodo.htm   (1880 words)

  
 Indiainfo.com -> News -> India -> Minorities react sharply to TN's conversion order
Various state governments who have raised the bogey of induced or forcible conversions have failed to find out even a single such case in the past, it said adding that the Council, which was already challenging a similar law in Orissa, was consulting legal experts on the Tamil Nadu Ordinance.
Meanwhile, in Madurai the president of United Minorities Forum and Archbishop of Madurai Diocese M Arockiaswamy, warned that educational institutions run by minorities would be closed down if Tamil Nadu government did not withdraw its Ordinance banning religious conversions.
He told reporters in Madurai that the government Ordinance was "unjust and smacks off a pro-Hindutva ideological bias" contrary to the proclaimed vision of secular front.
news.indiainfo.com /2002/10/07/07conversion.html   (273 words)

  
 Singh's rise spurs hope in India's minorities - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - June 12, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
This marks a potential turning point for India, a nation where massacres of thousands over their religion have occurred under governments not only of the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, that ruled for the past six years, but also Mr.
India's president at the time of the riots — occupying a 350-room mansion in the center of New Delhi and a ceremonial, but revered post — was a Sikh, Zail Singh.
Manmohan Singh's selection "tells the minorities they should not lose faith in the system and the society as a whole when things are going against them," said Ayub Ali Khan, a Muslim and a former editor in Hyderabad, the capital of the southern state of Andhra Pradesh.
www.washtimes.com /national/20040611-111025-9455r.htm   (847 words)

  
 ZEENEWS.COM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Patna, Aug 22: The All India Minorities Front (AIMF) has said it will demand white paper from the ministers of the Union Cabinet regarding the status of 'Muslim minorities' and the steps taken by the Government for their development.
AIMF Chairperson S M Asif told newspersons here yesterday that the Muslim minorities had been used as vote banks by successive governments and political parties.
He said the AIMF would seriously discuss the plights of minorities and would demand white paper from the ministers attending the convention on the status of Muslims and contributions of the government in their development.
www.zeenews.com /znnew/articles.asp?aid=236518&sid=NAT   (263 words)

  
 India’s Sexual Minorities
Although, as Ruth Vanita and Saleem Kidwai have shown, there are references to homoerotic behaviour in premodern Indian texts, homosexual conduct is rarely spoken of approvingly, and judgments on female homosexuality are particularly harsh.
It is in that context that the emergence of sexual minorities becomes a marker of incipient globalization.
While West Bengal’s Left Front government might be right up there with anyone else when it comes to the suppression of individual rights and the persecution of dissent, it must be placed on record that it did provide police protection and didn’t allow untoward incidents in the case of the marchers of June 29.
www.sodomylaws.org /world/india/innews22.htm   (1226 words)

  
 Netindia123.com
A committee representing the minority communities of Sikkim Thursday criticised the passage of a controversial land reform bill that does away with an old law, terming it a "threat" to Sikkimese people.
SIBLAC has said that the bill is a "direct threat to the minority Bhutia-Lepcha communities and to all Sikkimese people as a whole".
The ruling Sikkim Democratic Front of which Chamling is the leader had 31 seats in the 32 seat state legislature.
www.netindia123.com /showdetails.asp?id=110186&cat=India&head=Sikkim+minorities+denounce+land+reform+bill   (426 words)

  
 In Brief -- Chandigarh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The All India Dalits and Minorities Welfare Front has charged the Chandigarh Administration and neighbouring states of Punjab and Haryana of not evincing interest in the clearance of more than a decade old backlog of quota posts for members of the Scheduled Castes and Tribes.
In a press release, front general secretary O P Kalyana, while seeking early filling up of the backlog, has also sought provision of legal protection to SC/STs in the matter of promotion.
Build India Group (BIG) is going to organise a function for tree plantation and distribution of uniforms and books to school students at Government High School, Sector 25 on August 19.
www.indianexpress.com /ie/daily/19980818/23051164.html   (510 words)

  
 The Hindu : National : Assam minorities hoodwinked, says Front
GUWAHATI: The United Minorities Front (UMF) on Sunday alleged that the Tarun Gogoi-led Congress Government had never pressed for the withdrawal of the affidavit submitted by the previous Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) Government, which sought the scrapping of the Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) Act 1983.
Accusing the Congress of "hoodwinking the minorities," he said the Government had not argued the case with facts and figures and opposed the striking down of the Act only because the party had made a promise in the election manifesto.
Choudhury also accused the Congress of adopting a "contradictory stand" on the issue and quoted from the judgment the report of the General Secretaries to the seventh general conference of the North Eastern Congress(I) Co-ordination Committee of July 3, 1992.
www.hindu.com /2005/07/25/stories/2005072502281300.htm   (509 words)

  
 AL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
447 - All India Anna Diravida Munnetra Kazhagam
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449 - All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK
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 BBC NEWS | South Asia | 'Anti-Muslim' row hits India
India's National Commission for Minorities has demanded to hear tapes containing allegedly disrespectful remarks about Muslims made by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
Now the vice-chairman of India's National commission for Minorities (NCM), Tirlochan Singh, says the commission has asked for a copy of the tapes and the text of Mr Modi's speech.
The NCM is a constitutional body that oversees matters relating to India's minorities.
newsimg.bbc.co.uk /2/low/south_asia/2264469.stm   (421 words)

  
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He said it was time India responded positively, else it would send a signal that it was not interested in solving the dispute.
Minorities’ front chairman S.M. Asif said the Prime Minister should have consulted the Muslim community and intelligentsia before making a statement.
Shakil Ahmad Sheri, the president of the masjid reconstruction front, urged the NDA allies to read the “writing on the wall” and pressure Vajpayee to retract his statement.
www.telegraphindia.com /1001209/national.htm   (3543 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: All India Minorities Front   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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 Minorities Front flays Vajpayee
CHANDIGARH, Jan 5: The All-India Dalits and Minorities Welfare Front has criticised Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee for his remarks alleging a "foreign hand" in the Gujarat incidents without ascertaining the reality.
In a press release issued here today, general secretary of the Front O.P. Kalyana lamented the way the Prime Minister tried to pass the buck and demanded that he set his house in order first.
Criticising the attacks on minorities in Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, Kalyana said it was the duty of the government to provide protection to the minority communities from all kinds of anti-social elements.
www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19990106/00651515.html   (123 words)

  
 The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Punjab
The Punjab unit of the Communist Party of India (CPI) today said all reserved Assembly constituencies should be placed in the general category at the time or delimitation of the Assembly and Lok Sabha constituencies so as to grant reserved status to other constituencies.
The All-India National Minorities and Dalit Front will hold a state-level demonstration at Jalandhar on May 1 in protest against discrimination against Sikhs in France and Dubai, repression of Congress government on Akalis and injustice with people of Punjab, especially the poor, the downtrodden and employees.
Jathedar Bahadur Singh Sangatpur was appointed the district president of the front.
www.tribuneindia.com /2005/20050428/punjab1.htm   (6378 words)

  
 The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Nation
All-India Minorities Front today urged all political parties not to raise the Ayodhya tangle during the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections.
In keeping with its decision to highlight the party’s achievements, the Congress pointed out that it was Indira Gandhi who brought in the Green Revolution, made India a space power, was responsible for the first peaceful nuclear explosion in addition to introducing anti-poverty programmes.
However, Shiv Sainiks, who have been protesting against the celebration of what they call a western idea and culture in recent years, burnt down posters and cards in front of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly in Lucknow to register their protest and raided several parks and restaurants to track down young couples.
www.tribuneindia.com /2004/20040215/nation.htm   (3366 words)

  
 Minorities' front asks govt to prioritise rehabilitation- The Times of India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Minorities' front asks govt to prioritise rehabilitation- The Times of India
AHMEDABAD: A delegation of the United Minorities Front has urged the Gujarat government to give utmost priority to the rehabilitation of displaced riot victims.
Addressing a press conference here on Monday, president of the front Mehmood H Rehamani said that the 45-member delegation has demanded that the government should register individual FIRs for each riot victim for protecting their compensation rights for relief and rehabilitation.
www1.timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/msid-11201387,prtpage-1.cms   (140 words)

  
 Paswan's gets flak for Muslim chief minister stand:- - India News - Webindia123.com
Steel Minister and Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Ram Vilas Paswan's declaration that the next Bihar chief minister would have to be a Muslim has found few takers, with even his 'secular allies' calling it a sham.
While Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad and groups like the All India Minorities Front have already questioned Paswan's love for the Muslims, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Janata Dal-Secular have also objected to the suggestion.
All India Minorities Front president S.M. Asif has already said that a Muslim chief minister won't be a solution to any problem.
news.webindia123.com /news/showdetails.asp?id=111192&cat=India   (371 words)

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