## Sulfith and Ayesha contest for BJP in Malappuram, say they are inspired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision for new India -/-/-/ ## Mala Adiga hails from Kakkunje Adiga family of K Suryanarayana Adiga, founder of the erstwhile undivided Dakshina Kannada district’s private sector bank, Karnataka Bank Ltd.

 

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#OPINION : Sunday, November 22, 2020. 06:33 PM. 2310.

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## Sulfith and Ayesha contest for BJP in Malappuram, say they are inspired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision for new India : 22-Nov-2020 : Ganesh Puthur

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Two Muslim women, Sulfith and Ayesha are contesting local body elections on BJP tickets from Malappuram, a Muslim majority district in Kerala. There have always been false narratives created by the Islamists and communists about BJP suppressing Muslims. But little has been said about BJP’s progressive stand on Triple Talaq and implementation of schemes for the upliftment of women irrespective of their religious background. Hence, Sulfith and Ayesha contesting on BJP tickets have raised several eyebrows.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision for new India and well being of people is what which inspired to join BJP, say Sulfith and Ayesha.

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T.V Sulfith is contesting from Vandoor Grama Panchayat’s ward number 6 while Ayesha Hussain is contesting from Ponmundam Panchayat ward 9. Both have filed their nomination and are campaigning to ensure their victory. The progressive outlook of BJP is what it attracted Sulfith to the party. She was married off at an early age of 15. Sulfith appreciates the central government’s decisions to criminalise Triple talaq and raising the legal marriage for marriage. She believes that girls need education and shouldn’t be married off at an early age. She also refuted the claims of UDF and LDF that Muslims are unsafe under BJP rule.

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Ayesha Hussain is the wife of Hussain, who is the district member of the minority wing of BJP. She is contesting an election for the first time. She is a follower for PM Narendra Modi and considers A.B Vajpayee as her role model. Hussain is also contesting on a BJP ticket to the Malappuram Zilla Panchayat from the Edarikkodu division.

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## Mala Adiga to be US First Lady's policy director: Kannada connection in Biden's first appointment orders : 22-Nov-2020 : Nirendra Dev : Organiser : Media Report.
   

 New Delhi: The future 'First Lady' Jill Biden's Policy Director will be Mala Adiga, an Indian American and who has also served during the erstwhile Barack Obama administration.

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"Adiga will work for a First Lady who has said she intends to prioritise education and military families," CNN reported.

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In fact, there is a Karnataka connection to Ms Adiga.

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She hails from Kakkunje Adiga family of K Suryanarayana Adiga, founder of the erstwhile undivided Dakshina Kannada district’s private sector bank, Karnataka Bank Ltd.

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No wonder, the appointment has brought cheer to Kakkunje village in Kundapur taluk in the southern state.

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Ms Adiga was a senior adviser to Jill and senior policy adviser for Biden's 2020 campaign and she also previously worked for the Biden Foundation as director for higher education and military families.

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Under Obama's Democratic party administration, she was deputy assistant secretary of state for academic programmes at the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and worked in the State Department's Office of Global Women's Issues as chief of staff and senior adviser to the ambassador-at-large.

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According to official sources in the US, Ms Adiga also served in the Secretary of State’s Office of Global Women’s Issues as chief of staff and senior advisor to the Ambassador-at-Large.

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She was also Director for Human Rights in the National Security Staff’s (NSS) Multilateral and Human Rights Directorate. Prior to joining NSS, she was an attorney at the Department of Justice, where she served as Counsel to the Associate Attorney General.

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The appointment may not have direct strategic and foreign policy significance. But given the backdrop of lot of noise vis-a-vis President Donald Trump's personal rapport with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the debate over how would Joe Biden-regime formulate its India policy, this can have some meaning.

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Experts maintain that Biden has always remained a 'strong believer' of the argument that the US and India could be effective natural partners. As such, this school of thought says there is no government in the US that would afford to ignore New Delhi and the Modi-led dispensation.

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"From his early days as senator till recently Biden has been espousing India’s cause in the US and lobbying for Indian interests as an admirer of the world's largest democracy," says Brig (Retd) Anil Gupta in 'Organiser'.

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### Mala Adiga's father Dr Ramesh Adiga, 84, who graduated from Bangalore Medical College, had migrated to the US six decades back. He is a naturalised citizen of the US Dr Jaya Adiga, Mala’s mother is also a medico.

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