The seculars’ poster boy

Syed Sohrabuddin, who was killed along with his wife in a despicable fake encounter in Gujarat, was for long Indian seculars’ poster boy. In the 2007 Gujarat Assembly polls, Sonia Gandhi first put him on the Congress election poster and called Narendra Modi “merchant of death”. But that didn’t fetch votes. But, being a Muslim killed by Modi’s policemen, Sohrabuddin predictably emerged at the national level as the poster boy of secularism.

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