The fuss about the Muslim vote

At this point of time, the Lok Sabha election campaign seems to have assigned a higher value to the Muslim vote than their actual numbers in the Indian population—about 15%—would warrant. The dadhi-topi-burqa (beard-cap-burqa) symbolism of the campaign was misleading in many ways, one of them being that Muslims looked like having not 15% of the vote, but 30 or 50%.

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