Bihar Assembly election 2020 was the first post Covid-19 ... Out of 123 million population around 80 million are youth population. The Ansari community, Wasim Ansari of the Mahapanchayat says, comprises 11% of the total 17% Muslim population in Bihar, but lacks political representation. Muslim politics and the 2020 Bihar Election, subtle balance between local dominant communities, Muslim (majority) politics: The AIMIM’s foray in Seemanchal. The Rajasthan Ansari are members of the Moin Conference, as well as having local informal clan councils, which deal with inter community disputes, while the Momin Conference acts as a pressure group dealing with the state government. Quite a few are now involved in tailoring and the manufacture of bidis, a local cigarette. Bihar has the worst doctor-population ratio in the country, with only one doctor serving 28,391 people, and anxieties around the virus played a big part in the debate. The role of ‘kingmaker’ that some analysts expected the party to play did not materialize — the AIMIM’s five seats were not enough to help the Mahagathbandhan (MGB) form a majority, were it indeed to join the alliance. Females: 49821295. The Ansari are an Urdu-speaking community, although the Ansari clan of Gujarat have Gujarati as their mother tongue. Now, the number of nagar nigams is set to be 17, with 74 nagar parishads and 191 nagar panchayats. In North India, the community are known as Ansari or sheikh, while in Maharashtra the community are known as Momin or saudagar. District wise population of Bihar. Bihar Population 2020 –110.50576 Million. In areas where they are not in a majority, Muslims seem subject to a kind of minority syndrome and thus more concerned with security than with collective assertion. The Momin Conference was founded in Bihar, and the Bihar Ansaris have played a key role in the organization.[3]. The current literacy rate of BIHAR is about 63.82 % as per 2011 calculation. On the night of the election results, Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera held that Owaisi’s politics spark radicalization among Muslim youth by seeking to counter the BJP’s radical discourse. [4]:972–976, The Shaikh Ansari are an Urdu-speaking community, and are said to have immigrated from Delhi, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh some three hundred years ago. The lack of political representation of the marginalized among the Muslims persists in spite of the creation in 2019 of a new organization that aimed to solve this issue. Abdul Qaiyum Ansari (1 July 1905 – 18 January 1973) was a participant in the freedom struggle of India. This shows that there is more to Muslim political participation in Bihar than the AIMIM’s breakthrough. Their socio-economic condition has constantly improved. Congress veteran Furkan Ansari blames Rahul Gandhi for fiasco in Bihar polls Divy Khare / TNN / Updated: Nov 18, 2020, 08:50 IST Facebook Twitter Linkedin EMail The Momin of Maharashtra are also known as Ansari or saudagar The AMP’s message is clear and simple: Ansaris represent 11% of Bihar’s population but there is neither an MLA nor an MP from the community. Bihar Rural Population 2011:-Of the total population of Bihar state, around 88.71 percent live in the villages of rural areas. A significant number are also employed in the textile industries. There is no system of clans, and cross and parallel cousin marriages are common. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback … The Momin Ansari lost their distinct group identity as they assimilated and are now an integral part of the Urdu-speaking Muhajir community of Pakistan. To help the AIMIM candidates win over the Kulhaiya vote, Shahnawaz Alam campaigned with them in their constituencies. In actual numbers, males and females were 48,073,850 and 44,267,586 respectively. The region, which is also considered the most backward in Bihar, has a 47% Muslim population as against Bihar’s state-wide average of 17%. : 459–462. In particular, the Momin Ansaris, or weavers, have long had organizations working for their collective upliftment and access to politics, such as the Momin Conference, which opposed the Muslim League before Partition and was merged by its leader, Abdul Qayyum Ansari, into the Congress after Independence. The vast majority of Bihari Muslims are followers of the Sunni tradition and even in pre-Mughal Bihar, all the Ulemas, Imams and Sufis were Sunnis. Out of three Ansari candidates picked by the large parties (Anjum Ara of the JDU in Dumraon, Qayamuddin Ansarin of the CPI (ML) in Arrah, and Javed Iqbal Ansari of the RJD in Banka), none managed to emerge victorious. They are found mainly in the districts of Pune, Nasik, Ahmednagar, Aurangabad, Jalna, Osmanabad, Dhule, Nagpur, Thane, Kolhapur, Raigarh, parbhani and Nanded. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. CENTRAL LIST OF OBCs FOR THE STATE OF BIHAR Entry No Caste/ Community Resolution No. In none of the constituencies where the NDA won and the MGB came in second place did the AIMIM obtain a vote share greater than the winning party’s margin. The surname originated from Ansar tribe, The Medinan People who helped the Islamic prophet, Muhammad, in his migration from Mecca to Medina. Mahmood Ansari Page | 1 Migration from the Rural Region moments of slowly developing streams as well as periods of time characterized by the almost sudden, fast and large volume of streams of migration of the working population from Bihar to the neighboring eastern … Yet Seemanchal is not new to Muslim politics. The population of the Bihar … The AIMIM’s rise in Seemanchal attracted media attention and much condemnation from the Congress party and the RJD. Love Taboos: Controlling Hindu-Muslim Romances. It has an area of 94,163 sq. His profession according to the election affidavit filed with the Election Commission is: Nil. One observation may seem to indicate so: in the 32 constituencies where Muslims form at least 30% of the population, the BJP increased its MLA representation from seven in 2015 to 12 in 2020, winning five new constituencies. They are split into two … Asaduddin Owaisi with the newly elected AIMIM MLAs from Bihar | AIMIM (Facebook). They speak the Sadri dialect, which is distinctive to the community, although most have knowledge of Urdu. While the AIMIM has made its entrance in Bihar in the latest elections, its candidates are also not new to politics, but are professional politicians. This is true even in constituencies where the Muslim population is above the state average, such as in Madhubani and Dharbhanga districts (where Muslims number more than 30% of the population in several constituencies). While they may offer a way of creating a political base for a leader, they are undermined by individual opportunity seekers. They are active in politics. Pasmanda politics has not so far proved itself to be an electoral force…the need to vote for a winning candidate against the NDA trumps any possible biradari affinity among Muslims. They are split into two groupings, the giyara gaonwala and the bais goanwala. They were the first tribe in Arabia to accept Islam. He was known for his commitment to national integration, secularism and communal harmony. Zainul Ansari, a robust man in his eighties, ... For the large Muslim population in Bihar today, an environment of fear, hate and stigma has been manufactured by the current coalition government. These orphans come from all over the Indian state of Bihar; many were given up by their families due to extreme financial poverty. Bihar Population by Sex. They speak Gujarati with substantial Urdu loanwords. They are also known as Deswali Shaikh, and speak the Madri dialect, which is a mixture of Urdu and Hindi. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited. Has the US Dodged the Rise of Far-Right Politics. This points to the fact that Muslim voters identified the JDU not so much as a Bihar-based party that is able to deliver on governance, but as an alliance breaker and an ally of the BJP. Ansari named Bihar screening committee chairman Avinash Pande, Bihar in-charge Shaktisinh Gohil and special poll emissary Randeep Surjewala for the election “mess”. The title of 'Wazir Khan' by which he is remembered by posterity was granted him by Shah Jahan, and literally means a 'Wazir', or Vizier, a 'Minister/High Court Official'. The party successfully placed Muslim MLAs in five seats where previously a non-Muslim was the incumbent (three from the JDU, one BJP and one independent), and won one constituency from a JDU Muslim MLA. Among all parties, the RJD retains the largest number of Muslim MLAs (eight, down from 12 in 2015), suggesting that its Muslim-Yadav equation still works efficiently. Please note that Ansari House is a home where my wife and I are raising 18 orphans alongside our four biological children. The AMP launched a ground-level campaign to build a base in central and western Bihar which led to a large gathering in Patna in December 2019, attended by about 3,000-4,000 people and by prominent figures of Pasmanda politics, such as Ali Anwar and Dr. Ayyub, the head of the Peace Party. Yet, even if a consolidation of the Hindu vote could be ascertained, the causality with the AIMIM’s politics remains unclear, as the BJP has gained new seats in area with little Muslim population as well. According to the reports, Ansari, a former MP and a prominent Muslim leader in Jharkhand, had questioned about the manner in which Rahul Gandhi did campaigning in Bihar during the assembly elections. Last Updated: 18th November, 2020 15:26 IST Congress Stalwarts Lash Out; Furqan Ansari Says People Couldn't Comprehend Rahul Gandhi In another major setback for the Congress, senior leader Furqan Ansari blamed Rahul Gandhi for the party’s downfall in the recently concluded Bihar elections Many Momin are now successful entrepreneurs and professionals such as teachers, engineers and doctors. Finally, the AIMIM’s fifth MLA, in Baisi, is a Sayyid — the highest social group among Muslims that claims descent from Prophet Muhammad — whose family has long been integrated with the Surjapuri environment. The only Congress Muslim candidate from a marginalized Muslim community was Abidur Rahman in Araria, a seat with a strong Kulhaiya presence, and he was re-elected. Km. The volume provides a complex portrait of the chieftains of Bihar and their relationship with the Mughal Empire as well as their role in the consolidation and expansion of the Mughal Empire in India. Write to editor@theindiaforum.in. Voting for the first phase of the assembly election in Bihar took place on October 28 with a voting population of nearly 11.5 million in 71 constituencies across 16 districts. The Muslim population in these seats is 40 to 70%. [T]he local standing of candidates was crucial for the AIMIM’s victories in Bihar. There are total of 54278157 male persons and 49821295 females and a total number of children below 6 years in Bihar. And in Kochadhaman, the winner, Muhammad Izhar Asfi, had been a panchayat mukhiya (head) and an old associate of Akhtarul Iman. The party is contesting on 70 seats. BJP slams Congress for fielding AMU ex-student president in Bihar, calls him ‘Jinnah supporter’ Former AMU students union president Maskoor Usmani, fielded from Jale, is one of Congress' 12 Muslim candidates in Bihar. Seats where Muslim JDU candidates had won in 2015 thanks to the RJD-JDU alliance now went to the MGB candidates (Sheohar, Sikta, Thakurganj) or the AIMIM (Jokihat, Kochadhaman). The community are found throughout India, but Varanasi District, in Uttar Pradesh, is always regarded by most Momin as the centre of their community. Julien Levesque is a political sociologist who is currently Head Researcher at the Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi, and is associated with the Centre for South Asian Studies, EHESS, Paris. Many Momin are employed by other Momin in these powerlooms; this is especially the case in the towns of Bhiwandi, Malegaon and Nagpur. After the independence of Pakistan in 1947, many members of the Momin Ansari community migrated to Pakistan and settled mainly in the Sindh province. The main organizer of the AIMIM in Bihar, Akhtarul Iman — who won in Amour with a margin of 52,000 votes — had been a Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MLA between 2005 and 2014. These have all but disappeared. The Garana Ansari community in Gujarat are found mainly in the districts of Junagarh, Ahmedabad, Surat and Kutch. However, as much as it wants to claim representation for all Muslims, in Bihar the AIMIM is responsible for the victory of only five out of a total of 19 Muslims who were elected to the assembly (down from 24 in 2015). The story of the Muslim vote in Bihar is not the triumph of the AIMIM, but the strong desire of the Muslim voter in both majority and minority areas across the state to express herself against the BJP and its allies. and is twelfth largest by territory. Like other Ansari communities, the Momin are members of the All-India Momin Conference, one of the oldest Muslim organizations in India. In the final outcome of the Bihar assembly elections, what drew attention to some of the successful Muslim candidates was the fact that the All India Muslim Ittehad-ul Muslimeen (AIMIM) won five seats in the north-eastern Seemanchal region, where Muslims form about half of the population (from 77.5% in Jokihat to 38% in Araria). The anti-NDA stance of Muslim voters also shows in the fact that the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP), which tried to project itself as an ally of the BJP and an opponent of the JDU, could not get any of its seven Muslim candidates elected. Before this cabinet decision was taken, Bihar had 12 nagar nigams with population of over two lakh, 42 nagar parishads with population of 40,000 to two lakh, and 88 nagar panchayats. Yet this accusation confusingly blends two processes: radicalization and polarization. DEMOGRAPHY OF BIHAR: The literacy rate is 63.8%. Yet, its candidates were often directly pitted against the BJP rather than the smaller parties, in part explaining its low strike rate. Lal, P.B.S.V. In Jharkhand, they are mainly found in Koderma, Hazaribagh, Gumla, Ranchi, Lohardaga and Singhbhum districts. In spite of recent mobilizations, Pasmanda politics has not been able to make a dent in electoral dynamics but can be a good way for someone with political ambitions to enter the political arena. However, the Congress’ three incumbent Muslim MLAs showed striking stability and were re-elected. (Shaikh alım ud-din Ansari),known as Nawab Wazir Khan was the governed of Lahore at the time of Mughal emperor Shah jahan. They are part of the South Asia Muslim - Ansari people cluster within the South Asian Peoples affinity bloc. In other words, the fact that the AIMIM contested these seats did not siphon off enough votes from the MGB to be responsible for its defeat. The RJD’s Muslim-Yadav equation is still efficient. The Ansari are strictly endogamous and practice both parallel and cross cousin marriages. Not only is there a continued over-representation of Ashraf among Muslim candidates and elected MLAs (16 Ashraf against 3 Pasmanda this year), there are also very few biradaris represented of the total number of caste groups. What appears clear from the fate of Muslim candidates is the unambiguous vote against the NDA. This leads to two distinct political dynamics. They have always been connected with the textile work. The AIMIM’s and Asaduddin Owaisi’s politics fall into this category. However, the AIMIM’s MLAs represent less than a third of the 19 Muslims who were elected to the assembly this year. The AIMIM’s entrance into Bihar politics may be an important step in the party’s expansion beyond its stronghold of Hyderabad. Bihar Election Result 2020: RJD's Javed Ansari ahead from Banka seat Counting of votes for 243 Bihar Assembly seats to begin at 8 am today Marvel unleashed! The Momin Ansari is mainly settled in Karachi and Hyderabad cities of the Sindh province. They are descended from immigrants from North India. The population growth rate recorded for this decade (2001-2011) was 88.71%. Invoking the heritage of Abdul Qayyum Ansari, the Ansari Mahapanchayat (AMP) was founded by a young Jamia Millia Islamia graduate from Gaya, Waseem Nayyar Ansari. In spite of this poor performance, one might argue that being able to enter an alliance with a well-known personality, field several candidates from the community, and gain the following of several thousand people, was quite a step for a new initiative. In the mid-1990s, Ali Anwar launched the Pasmanda Muslim Mahaz, and Ejaz Ali established the Backward Muslim Morcha. The various statistics regarding Bihar's population are as follows: Population of the city is 82.88 million Qyam Ansari Bihar is on Facebook. Their main occupation is weaving, and they use both hand-held and power looms. Thus, the local standing of candidates was crucial for the AIMIM’s victories in Bihar — combined with the popularity of Asaduddin Owaisi and Akhtarul Iman, and, in some places, a subtle balance between local dominant communities. Agariya -do- (estimated). It is also the World’s third most populous sub-national entity. The AIMIM’s push on the basis of a rhetoric of Muslim politics is significant but does not tell the whole story. Muslim minority politics: What worked for other winning Muslim candidates? The Surjapuris — considered to be Shaikh and therefore part of the dominant Ashraf cluster — are in large numbers in Kishanganj district, while the marginalized Kulhaiya — who were included in the category of Extremely Backward Classes created by Nitish Kumar’s government in 2005 — constitute a significant group in Araria district. They are strictly endogamous, and tend to marry close kin. The Congress had fielded 12 Muslims among its 70 candidates, a higher proportion than other parties. In spite of the AIMIM’s past and the occasional radical actions of some of its members (Akbaruddin Owaisi’s Karimnagar speech of 2013 or the agitation against Taslima Nasreen in 2007), the party’s popularity and electoral successes in recent years do not rest on a radical discourse but operate within the framework of electoral democracy. The JDU’s Muslim candidates, whether in Seemanchal (Araria, Thakurganj, Kochadhaman, and Amour) or elsewhere (such as Sikta, Dharbhanga rural, and Marhaura, or Mahua), all came second or third. New organizations now explicitly challenge the leadership of the Ashraf, accusing them of maintaining their dominant position by invoking the necessity for Muslims to unite as a minority community. By population, it is the third-largest state in India. Our typology of political dynamics among Muslims is incomplete without mention of caste-based or identity politics. The Congress still seeks to co-opt Muslim elites. The Momin are largely an urban community, with only small number found as agriculturists. When looking at Muslim political participation in Bihar, one of the interesting characteristics of the state is that it includes both Muslim minority and majority (or near-majority) areas. This organization acts as a welfare organization, as well as lobbying on behalf of the community.[6]:1473–1478. Muslim identity politics: How does Pasmanda mobilization translate in electoral terms? The percentage of male population is 52.14% The percentage of female population is 47.86% Males: 54278157. They are an endogamous community, only rarely marrying out of their group. One might indeed wonder whether the AIMIM’s Muslim politics pushed Hindu voters towards the NDA in the 20 constituencies where the AIMIM was contesting. population of the state increased by 9.74% in the following decades of 1931-41 and 1941-51 also population increased by only 12.22% and 10.58% respectively. Join Facebook to connect with Qyam Ansari Bihar and others you may know. Population in Bihar is more than eighty two millions. The allegation, however, does not hold upon closer analysis. Asfi also happened to unseat his own son-in-law, four-time Congress MLA Tausif Alam. The Ansari are Sunni, and have provided many of the Ulema in Rajasthan. Important Ansari neighbourhoods in the city include Madanpura, Adampura and Jaitpura. Population, decadal growth rate and net change of Bihar from 1901 to 2011. While three sitting RJD Muslim MLAs were defeated in their own constituencies, the party incurred the loss of an important figure, Abdul Bari Siddiqui, and could not successfully fill the void left by the death of its four-time MLA Abdul Ghafoor. Usmani got more than 65,000 votes (38%) but could not defeat the BJP candidate. In Wazirabad Toor is also a sub cast of Ansari. They play active roles in all walks of life in Bihar. Yet, interestingly, only two of the RJD’s eight Muslim MLAs elected in 2020 are incumbents, which means that the party also lost many constituencies with an incumbent Muslim MLA: eight such seats went to the NDA. And other details are given below on this article for the Forum/Letters section, they are strictly endogamous practice! 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