Muslim representation in Parliament increases marginally after 2019 Election
New Delhi: After every election in India, it is very common to see people debating on how many MPs from Minority communities especially Muslim community will march into the parliament according to the people’s mandate and 2019 Lok Sabha Election was no different, as soon as the results of LS Polls 2019 came out people on social media started debating the number of Muslim MPs that were elected.
According to the data available, 27 Muslim candidates from across the country have managed win the elections. Five more than the 22 who managed to win the 2014 General Elections. Six of the 27 newly elected Muslim MPs come from Muslim parties which include 3 from Muslim League, 2 from All India Majlis-e-Ittihadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) and 1 from United Democratic Front.
Five Muslim candidates have managed to win the elections on the ticket of Mamata Banerjee led Trinamool Congress (TMC), 4 from Congress, 3 each from SP, BSP and Jammu Kashmir National Conference while NCP, LJP and CPM have sent 1 each candidate from their ranks to the Lok Sabha this time.
On a state-wise table West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh will each have six Muslim MPs from their states in the lower house of the parliament. Kerala and Jammu Kashmir will have 3 each, Assam, Bihar will have 2 each while Lakshwadeep, Maharashtra, Punjab, Tamil Nadu and Telangana will have 1 each from their states.
27 Muslim MPs account for a merely 4.97% of the total strength of Lok Sabha, but since the numbers have gone up from the previous term it is being welcomed. More so because there were no Muslim MPs in the previous term from state like Uttar Pradesh but the state this time has six Muslim MPs.
The outgoing Lok Sabha had 23 Muslim MPs, the most being from Congress and TMC. The highest number of Muslim MPs were in 1980 when as many as 49 MPs from the community. The previous 14th and 15th Lok Sabha had 30 and 34 Muslim MPs each when Congress-led UPA was in power. In 1984 when Rajiv Gandhi swept to power following the assassination of his mother and then prime minister Indira Gandhi as many as 42 Muslim MPs were there.
The lowest number of Muslim MPs were in 1952 when just 11 were present in the Lok Sabha.
The list of Muslim MPs that have won the 2019 elections is as follow:
Assam
Barpeta - Abdul Khaleque (INC)
Dhubri - Badruddin Ajmal (AIUDF)
Bihar
Khagaria - Choudhary Mehboob Ali Kaiser (LJP)
Kishanganj - Dr Mohammad Jawed (INC)
Jammu & Kashmir
Anantnag - Hasnain Masoodi (JKNC)
Baramulla - Mohammed Akbar Lone (JKNC)
Srinagar - Farooq Abdullah (JKNC)
Kerala
Alappuzha - Adv. A M Ariff (CPI-M)
Malappuram - P.K. Kunhalikutty (IUML)
Ponnani - E.T. Mohammed Basheer (IUML)
Lakshwadeep
Lakshwadeep - Mohammed Faizal PP (NCP)
Maharashtra
Aurangabad - Syed Imtiaz Jaleel (AIMIM)
Punjab
Faridkot - Mohammad Sadique (INC)
Tamil Nadu
Ramanathapuram - K. Navas Kani (IUML)
Telangana
Hyderabad - Asaduddin Owaisi (AIMIM)
Uttar Pradesh
Amroha - Kunwar Danish Ali (BSP)
Ghazipur - Afzal Ansari (BSP)
Moradabad - Dr. S.T. Hasan (SP)
Rampur - Mohammad Azam Khan (SP)
Saharanpur - Haji Fazlur Rehman (BSP)
Sambhal - Dr. Shafiqur Rehman Barq (SP)
West Bengal
Arambagh - Aparupa Poddar alias Afrin Ali (AITC)
Basirhat - Nusrat Jahan Ruhi (AITC)
Jangipur - Khalilur Rehman (AITC)
Maldaha Dakshin - Abu Hasem Khan Chowdhury (INC)
Murshidabad - Abu Taher Khan (AITC)
Uluberia - Sajda Ahmed (AITC)
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Allahabad HC sets aside maintenance order in favour of earning wife, says she didn't tell truth
Prayagraj (PTI): The Allahabad High Court has set aside a lower court order mandating a man to pay maintenance to his estranged wife, observing that she earns her living and did not reveal the true salary in her affidavit.
Justice Madan Pal Singh also allowed a criminal revision petition filed by the man, Ankit Saha.
"A perusal of the impugned judgment indicates that in the affidavit filed before the trial court, the opposite party herself admitted that she is a post-graduate and a web designer by qualification. She is working as a senior sales coordinator in a company and getting a salary of Rs 34,000 per month," the court said in the December 3 order.
"But in her cross-examination, she has admitted that she was earning Rs 36,000 per month. Such an amount for a wife who has no other liability cannot be said to be meagre; whereas the man has the responsibility of maintaining his aged parents and other social obligations," it observed.
The high court observed that the woman was not entitled to get any maintenance from her husband "as she is an earning lady and able to maintain herself".
The man's counsel argued in court that the estranged wife did not reveal the whole truth in the affidavit.
"She claimed herself to be an illiterate and unemployed woman. When the document filed by the man was shown to her before the trial court, she admitted her income during cross-examination. Thus, it is clear that she did not come before the trial court with clean hands," the counsel submitted.
The court, in its order, said, "Cases of those litigants who have no regard for the truth and those who indulge in suppressing material facts need to be thrown out of the court."
It impugned the lower court's February 17 judgment and order, passed by the principal judge of a family court in Gautam Buddh Nagar and allowed the criminal revision petition filed by the man.
