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Media representatives must submit the form below to access professional-quality video clips and high-resolution images related to Open Yale courses. The license that covers most lectures and other course materials on Open Yale Courses is the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license. This license allows free use or reuse of Open Yale course materials by others. Under this license, you may download and redistribute Open Yale Courses material or remix, enhance, and develop such material to produce new lectures or other types of creations. However, to do so, your use of the materials must be non-commercial and you must credit Yale [and the applicable Yale faculty member] as the author of the materials. In addition, you must license each new use of the Open Yale course materials on identical terms. For more information about the scope of the Creative Commons license, see creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/. Owaisi was awarded the Sansad Ratna Award 2014 (Jewel of Parliamentarians) in October 2013 for his performance in the 15th session of the Indian Parliament. During this period, he asked 1,080 questions in parliament, compared to a national average of 292. His 70% attendance The Milli Gazette wrote that he “has earned great respect among Indian Muslims across the country for his courageous speeches in Lok Sabha (lower house of the Indian Parliament).” It has dealt with issues affecting the interests of the minority community in Parliament. In the same statement, Rizvi accused Owaisi of radicalizing Muslim youth, saying: “Through his party, Owaisi is trying to mislead young Muslims and push them further towards terrorism.

He foments a conspiracy against the non-Muslim community and plans a bloodbath. [91] Following Owaisi`s complaint, some members of the Muslim community in Telangana, Hyderabad, hanged and burned an effigy of Waseem in protest. [93] Asaduddin Owaisi attended Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet and St Mary`s Junior College[10][11] before graduating with his Bachelor of Arts from Nizam College (Osmania University) in Hyderabad. He represented the South Zone Intercollegiate Under-25 Cricket Team as a fast bowler in the 1994 Vizzy Trophy and was later selected for the South Zone varsity team.[12] He is a lawyer by profession and studied at Lincoln`s Inn in London. [14] His brother Akbaruddin Owaisi is a member of the Telangana Legislative Assembly and leads the party there. [15] His younger brother Burhanuddin Owaisi is the editor-in-chief of Etemaad. [16] In February 2020, police in the Kalaburagi region of India, Karnataka, charged party leader Waris Pathan with alleged hate speech. In the speech, Pathon reportedly expressed anti-Hindu sentiments by postulating: “For those who say we have only put our women at the forefront of the protest against the CAA, NRC and NPR, so far only our lionesses have come out and you are already sweating.

Imagine what would happen if we all gathered men. We are 15 crore, which can outweigh their 100 crore. Waris later apologized for the comments on Twitter, while party chairman Asaduddin Owasi advised him not to make provocative remarks in public. [71] In the 2013 local elections, the party fielded a Hindu OBC candidate, V. Bhanumathi, who won the election against Hajira Sultana of the Congress by 1,282 votes. [67] Owaisi announced that his party, AIMIM, would run in the Bihar Legislative Assembly elections in 2015, primarily in the Muslim-majority region of Seemanchal region. News18 India wrote that the party`s candidates would split the vote and voters suspected him of being an agent of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party. [43] He said he was realistic about their chances of winning. He claimed the Seemanchal region was underdeveloped and blamed Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, the Indian National Congress Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party.

He said his aim was to pressure the government to create a regional development council for the region. [44] Although the party ran in six constituencies in the Seemanchal region, it failed to win a seat. [45] The party won 2 seats in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly elections in 2014. [33] Owaisi belongs to the Hyderabad-based All-India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), whose president was his father and grandfather. The party, although opposed to jihadist terrorism, still practices a policy of “competitive chauvinism”, according to journalist Kingshuk Nag. [28] Owaisi was born on May 13, 1969 to Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi and Najmunnisa Begum.[5] He comes from a political family in Hyderabad. His grandfather Abdul Wahed Owaisi refounded the political party Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen as All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen on September 18, 1957.[6] He also succeeded Qasim Razvi as party leader after his release from prison. His father, Sultan Salahuddin, was elected to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly in 1962.[7] [8] Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi was first elected to the Indian Parliament for the Hyderabad constituency in 1984 and won elections until 2004, when he resigned in favour of Asaduddin. He died in 2008. [9] In an exclusive interview with Main Media after the dissolution of the party, Akhtarul Iman Jokihat blamed the MP for her action.

He also claimed that each MP had received a huge sum of money in exchange for joining the RJD. [45] Both professors are teaching their courses this summer in an online format for admitted students. Both courses offer extensive interaction with lecturers and other students. The party`s main office is located in Darussalam, which is also home to the Deccan College of Engineering and Technology, the Deccan School of Pharmacy, the Deccan School of Planning and Architecture and the Deccan School of Management. The Etemaad press office is also located next to the engineering school. The open space on campus is also used from time to time to hold political rallies (called “jalsa”) where party leaders deliver speeches to the public and media. Open Yale Courses is supported by a grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in Menlo Park, California. With its Open Educational Resources (OER) initiative, launched in 2001, the Hewlett Foundation seeks to “use information technology to improve access to knowledge and educational opportunities worldwide.” The initiative supports “the development and distribution of high-quality content, innovative approaches to remove barriers to the creation, use, reuse and distribution of quality content, and projects to improve understanding of the demand for freely available content”. Visit www.hewlett.org. Open Yale Courses (OYC) makes lectures and other materials from select Yale College courses available to the public free of charge on the Internet. Courses cover the full spectrum of humanities disciplines, including humanities, social sciences, and physical and biological sciences.

AIMIM ran in the Bihar Legislative Assembly elections in 2020 as part of the Great Secular Democratic Front. The party won 5 seats in the Seemanchal region,[40] with Iman of Amur, Ruknuddin Ahmed of Baisi, Izhar Asfi of Kochdhaman, Anzar Nayeemi of Bahadurganj and Shahnawaz Alam of Jokihat. [41] [42] In 2009, Owaisi was prosecuted and beaten Syed Saleemuddin, an election official of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in the Moghalpura region, on the orders of the Election Commission of India. [72] [73] In March 2013, he was arrested for organizing a gathering without permission and carrying a weapon without a permit in Bidar, Karnataka. [74] In June 2014, Owaisi allegedly held hate speech against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in an effort to win Muslim support for his party. [75] [76] In January 2015, Owaisi stated that every child in the world is born Muslim and that his parents and society convert him to other religions. He also said that Islam is the true home of all religions. [77] [78] In the mocking TV talk show Aap Ki Adalat on Indian television, Owaisi was “tried” and answered questions about his politics, controversies, and the statements of presenter Rajat Sharma ahead of the 2014 elections. [95] He also appeared in the ninth episode of the online talk show Shut Up Ya Kunal in the online talk show Shut Up Ya Kunal in an informal conversation about his political positions. [96] AIMIM has held the Lok Sabha seat for the Hyderabad constituency since 1984.