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Muslims have decisive position in 15 lok sabha and 40 assembly seats in AP following delimitation


When Andhra Pradesh goes to poll some time early next year, its electoral map would have completely changed by the process of delimitation of the Lok Sabha and assembly constituencies. Along with this, its demographic map would have also undergone a major change giving a clear edge to the weaker sections and minorities in a much larger number of assembly and Parliamentary constituencies.

The Muslim minority, along with the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes will be in decisive position in more than 50% of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in the state. Muslims on their own will hold the key in 15 Lok Sabha seats including Hyderabad where they have the biggest presence of 70% among electorates. Similarly they will also have a decisive position in 40 assembly seats.

After Hyderabad, Nandyal will have the biggest Muslim presence with 17.77 per cent votes followed by 15% in Kadapa and Rajampet constituencies. In Nizamabad, Kurnool, Chevella, Zaheerabad, Guntur, Adilabad, Nellore, Narasaraopeta, Hindupur, Mahbubnagar and Anantapur, they will have a vote share of 10 to 14.94 percent.

This is much bigger than the earlier number of seats where the Muslims had a decisive say. The present delimitation process was carried out on the basis of 2001 census where in the statistics about the caste and religious affiliations of votes was available up to the mandal level.

There are not 40 assembly constituencies where the Muslims constituted morethan 15% of the voters. There are constituencies like Malakpet, Karwan, Goshamahal, Charimnar, Chandrayangutta, Yakutpura, Bahadurpura, and Nampally in Hyderabad where Muslims have 90% to 30% votes. They also have similar strong position in Guntur West and Vijaywada East constituencies. Nizamabad Urabn and and Kurnool have 34.72 and 34.38per cent Muslim voters.

Nellore, Kadapa, Zaheerabad and Rajendernagar, Nandyal, Bodhan and Rayachoti assembly constituencies have more than 25% Muslim votes.

However some of these Muslim dominated seats have been reserved for the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes.

                                                     

Urdu is one of the most important languages of Andhra Pradesh. While Telugu is the official language of the state, Urdu is treated as the additional official language in numerical strength. It comes next to Telugu. Urdu is spoken by 55.6 lakh persons in the state. The state government has notified the areas where the population of linguistic minority constitutes 15% or more of the local population.

In the present study, we are mainly concerned with the Urdu speaking linguistic minority and therefore the areas where Urdu speakers constitute 15% or more of the local population are given below:

• Madhanapalli Municipal and Vavalpadu taluka in district Chittoor;
• Municipal areas of Cuddapah and Proddatur and in the taluka of Rayachoti and Lakkirddipalli in the district of Cuddapah;
• Gooty taluka and in the Municipal areas of Rayadurg, Anantapur, Dharmavaram, Guntakal, Hindupur;
• Municipal areas of Adilabad, Bainsa, Kagaznagar Nirmal and in Madhole taluka in district Adilabad;
• Municipal areas of Guntur, Chilakaluripet, Narasarapet and ponnuru in district Guntur;
• Municipal areas of Yemmiganur, Adoni, Kurnool and Nandyal and in the talukas of Allagadda, Atmakur, Banagannapalle and Nandikotur in district Kurnool;
• Municipal areas of Karimnagar Municipal area in district Khammam;
• Municipal areas of Gadwal, Mahabubnagar and Narayanapet in district Mahabubnagar;
• Municipal areas of Medak, Sadasivapet, Sangareddy, Siddipet and Jahirabad and in Jahirabad Non-Municipal area in district Medak;
• in Nellore Municipal area in district Nellore;
• Municipal areas of Bhongir and Nalgonda in district Nalgonda;
• in Warangal Municipal area in Warangal district;
• Municipal areas of Bodhan and Nizamabad and in Bodhan Non-Municipal area in district Nizamabad;
• Markapuram Municipal area in district Prakasam;
• Talukas of Marpalli, Tandur and in Tandur Municipal area district Rangareddy, and
• in all the areas in Hyderabad, including the Hyderabad Municipal Corporation.

Courtesy: compiled by Javeed Syed(APMC) sources By Mohammed Siddique, TwoCircles.net and other internet sources like languageinindia.com etc