Shaky 'Secular' parties dial M for UP survival

United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi's April 1 meeting with the Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid is but the final leg of the Congress party's Muslim vote strategy. With 16 Lok Sabha constituencies that have a Muslim population of between 20 and 50 per cent, Uttar Pradesh is the centrepiece of what is beginning to look like a survival plan now.

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