Gulam Jeelani writes on politics, national affairs and socio-economic issues for Hindustan Times. A journalist for seven years, he worked in Lucknow and Srinagar, before moving to New Delhi.
Articles by Gulam Jeelani
After Alwar lynching, cattle transporters live in fear of gau rakshaks and cops
HT follows a cattle transport vehicle from Nasirabad market in Rajasthan’s Ajmer district to Dasna in Uttar Pradesh as the death of Haryana dairy farmer Pehlu Khan, who was assaulted by gau rakshaks in Alwar, weighs heavy on the minds of transporters.
Updated on Apr 14, 2017 12:10 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Ajmer/Jaipur | Gulam Jeelani and Deep Mukherjee
UP slaughterhouse crackdown: Leather, cricket balls and footwear may get costlier
The ban on illegal slaughterhouses in Uttar Pradesh which has also led to the shutdown of many legal abattoirs due to violations of one law or another, is beginning to affect the leather industry across the country because half of the raw materials used to come from UP.
Updated on Apr 07, 2017 06:57 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Gulam Jeelani and Suchetana Ray
Crashing sales, fear of vigilantes push cattle farmers to the edge in Yogi Adityanath’s UP
In the aftermath of the crackdown on illegal slaughterhouses, Uttar Pradesh’s 20 weekly cattle markets have seen a drastic fall in business.
Updated on Apr 06, 2017 12:31 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Dhanaura (Bulandshahr) | Gulam Jeelani
UP slaughterhouses: All about the Rs 15,000-cr industry that employs 25 lakh people
Uttar Pradesh’s meat processing industry accounts for 50% of India’s exports and employs 25 lakh people, directly or indirectly. As the Yogi Adityanath government launches a crackdown on illegal slaughterhouses in the state, HT looks at what drives the industry
Updated on Apr 30, 2017 08:24 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi/Lucknow | Gulam Jeelani, Brajendra K Parashar & M Tariq Khan
Job loss fear looms over UP’s biggest slaughterhouse where Hindus outnumber Muslims
At Frigerio Conserva Allana, one of the country’s biggest, and legal, slaughterhouse-cum-meat processing units, most of the 2,100 workers are Hindus.
Updated on Apr 03, 2017 02:40 PM IST
Hindustah Times, Aligarh | Gulam Jeelani
Fake UP govt website conducts poll on Ram Mandir-Babri Masjid dispute
The website – www.ayodhya-issue.gov-up.in – with its URL misleadingly similar to the UP government’s official website also carries a photograph of chief minister Adityanath.
Updated on Apr 10, 2017 07:23 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi/Lucknow | Gulam Jeelani and M Tariq Khan
Uttar Pradesh’s anti-Romeo drive leaves boys scared, girls unconvinced
The sight of policemen zipping across Meerut in convoys, beacons flashing and sirens blaring, have sent single men scurrying for cover.
Updated on Mar 25, 2017 12:08 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Meerut | Gulam Jeelani
Resolving Ayodhya dispute since 1859: The nine failed attempts at out-of-court settlements
Between 1859 and 2017, nine attempts have been made to resolve the Ram temple issue, but with no success
Updated on Apr 06, 2017 11:39 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Gulam Jeelani and M Tariq Khan
Delhi clerics: Full text of Pakistan newspaper article that hinted at RAW links
Asif Ali Nizami and Nazim Nizami are from Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia Dargah in Delhi. They had gone missing in Pakistan. A Pakistani daily, Ummat, had hinted that they were linked with RAW.
Updated on Mar 20, 2017 10:10 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Gulam Jeelani, New Delhi
From love jihad, conversion to SRK: 10 controversial comments by UP’s new CM Yogi Adityanath
HT lists 10 of the most controversial statements by the new Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath.
Updated on Apr 06, 2017 11:39 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Gulam Jeelani
Rape-accused Gayatri Prajapati’s roller coaster ride from rags to riches ends in jail
Gayatri Prajapati journey from a minor contractor to a powerful minister in the Samajwadi party government in UP came to a halt on Wednesday with his arrest in a gang rape case.
Updated on Mar 15, 2017 07:44 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Lucknow/New Delhi | Rohit K Singh and Gulam Jeelani
UP election results: Fielding Ansaris failed to get Muslim votes for Mayawati’s BSP
Fielding jailed gangster Mukhtar Ansari and his family in the assembly election proved to be a wrong move for Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati.
Updated on Mar 12, 2017 11:16 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Gulam Jeelani, Lucknow
Ansari factor failed for Mayawati
Mayawati gave tickets to the three Ansari’s-- Mukhtar (Mau), his brother Sibgatullah (Mohammadabad) and son Abbas Ansari (Ghosi), to cash in on their popularity in the region, but the Ansari’s could not win, or influence, any seat in eastern UP.
Published on Mar 12, 2017 03:55 PM IST
Lucknow, Hindustan Times | Gulam Jeelani, Lucknow
Election results: Why the Muslim vote didn’t count much in PM Modi’s UP win
The saffron party – which didn’t field a single Muslim candidate – won 31 of the 42 seats where the minority community comprised a third of the electorate, a strike rate of 74%. In 2012, the BJP had won eight and five in 2007.
Updated on Mar 13, 2017 07:19 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi/Lucknow | Jayanth Jacob and Gulam Jeelani
AIMIM fails to make a mark; Owaisi says UP verdict an indictment of secular parties
In a state with 19.3% Muslim voters, AIMIM fielded candidates on seats where Muslim voters were in large numbers, but lost all the seats.
Updated on Mar 12, 2017 12:08 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Lucknow/New Delhi | Gulam Jeelani & Jayanth Jacob, Lucknow/new Delhi
Got justice but will we get back jobs, ask 3 men framed by ‘Sonepat bravehearts’
Three Haryana youth were discharged last week by a local court of charges of harassing two sisters on a bus about two years ago. A video of the three men being thrashed on a bus by two girls, Aarti and Pooja, on being allegedly harassed went viral and the sisters were quickly hailed as ‘Sonepat brave hearts’.
Updated on Mar 07, 2017 09:07 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak/Sonepat | Gulam Jeelani and Hardik Anand
Thought Maha BJP chief can throw a lavish wedding? Here’s how other VIPs got married
A list of seven big fat Indian weddings that caught the eye and hit the headlines.
Updated on Mar 05, 2017 02:23 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Gulam Jeelani
Sunil Ambekar: No place for violence, Ramjas incident was exaggerated
Forty-nine-year-old Sunil Ambekar, the national organising secretary of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), has no qualms about the RSS-affiliated outfit challenging the Leftist thought which, he feels, has dominated campuses for long. In an interview with Hindustan Times, Ambekar, while denouncing violence, said ABVP will not compromise with issues concerning ‘national integrity’. Excerpts:
Published on Mar 04, 2017 11:46 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Gulam Jeelani, New Delhi
Besieged by protests: Is Delhi University the new Jantar Mantar?
From students of Delhi University and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) to teachers, from non-teaching employees to National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) office bearers, people with varied demands held the campus — which resembled a protest site — to ransom on Tuesday.
Updated on Feb 28, 2017 11:23 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Gulam Jeelani, New Delhi
ABVP rides on BJP’s 2014 success, stamps its mark in campuses across India
ABVP is actually on a roll across India, especially after the Bharatiya Janata Party rode to power at the Centre in 2014.
Updated on Feb 28, 2017 11:13 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Gulam Jeelani
In Meerut, PM Modi’s ‘shamshan’ remark meets grave silence
Those managing Meerut’s Soorajkund cremation ground — the city’s biggest about two kilometres away from the Nauchandi graveyard — are not complaining.
Updated on Feb 24, 2017 07:25 AM IST
New Delhi, Hindustan Times | Gulam Jeelani
Punjab election: AAP volunteers ‘guard’ EVMs across 59 strongrooms
Like Kapoor, many AAP supporters are displaying the same level of watchfulness across Punjab, which has 117 assembly constituencies. They are “guarding” all the EVMs kept in 59 strongrooms across the state.
Updated on Feb 20, 2017 07:56 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Patiala | Gulam Jeelani
UP election: How ‘bad men’ in politics turn Robinhood for common man
The criminalisation of politics emerged in UP in 1980’s when the village panchayat and assembly polls were held under the shadow of dacoits.
Updated on Feb 19, 2017 08:32 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Gulam Jeelani and Gurman Bhatia
UP polls: Youth in Yadav bastion of Etawah want jobs, not laptops or cell phones
Etawah, the pocket borough of SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav and his extended family, will vote in the third phase of the ongoing assembly polls on February 19.
Updated on Mar 06, 2017 06:52 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Etawah | Gulam Jeelani
Yogi Adityanath’s band of rebels want to teach BJP a lesson in eastern UP
Known as Hindu Yuva Vahini, the right-wing youth outfit that Yogi floated in 2002 has decided to field candidates in 64 constituencies of eastern UP against the BJP. They are doing this to ‘’punish’’ the BJP for “sidelining” their leader by not projecting him as the CM face in the ongoing seven-phase UP polls.
Updated on Feb 11, 2017 01:43 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Gorakhpur | Gulam Jeelani and Abdul Jadid
Uttar Pradesh elections: Tripathi sisters campaign for jailed brother Aman Mani
Tanushri Mani Tripathi, 27 and Alankrita Mani Tripathi, 24, are going door-to-door in villages of Nautanwa in Maharajganj to campaign for their brother Aman Mani Tripathi, 34, in jail for allegedly murdering his wife, Sara.
Updated on Feb 10, 2017 01:04 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Nautanwa (Maharajganj) | Gulam Jeelani
Akhilesh Yadav’s political fortunes in UP polls ride on Agra-Lucknow expressway
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav’s political fortunes are riding on the expressway, which is at the core of a development plank the Samajwadi Party is hoping will carry it back to power in the upcoming assembly elections.
Updated on Feb 07, 2017 07:10 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Lucknow/ Unnao/ Kannauj/ Etawah/Agra | Gulam Jeelani and M Tariq Khan
Punjab polls: Will the state’s ‘NRI belt’ determine the course of the future?
Hindustan Times looks at the mood on the ground in poll-bound Punjab while travelling with truckers. For those in Doaba, an electorally significant region, the issues of drug abuse and unemployment are top priorities.
Updated on Jan 28, 2017 07:55 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Nawanshahr/Hoshiarpur/Pathankot | Gulam Jeelani
Punjab election: Who are the truckers voting for?
Capturing the mood on the ground in poll-bound Punjab while travelling with truckers .
Updated on Jan 28, 2017 07:55 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Bathinda/Faridkot/ Moga/Ludhiana | Gulam Jeelani
Gurgaon: Thieves make off with Rs 11.5 lakh from Japanese woman’s house
The stolen money, police said, comprised 19,00,000 in Japanese Yen (Rs 11,30,212) and Rs 25,000 in Indian currency.
Updated on Jan 14, 2017 10:49 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Gulam Jeelani, Gurgaon