Most of the minority

Ever since the 2009 Lok Sabha polls, there has been hype over the Congress’s imminent revival in UP, based largely on expectations of the return of a significant section of the minority community to the party’s fold. Now, the demonstrations against Rahul Gandhi by students of Azamgarh’s Shibli National College would appear to call for an urgent revision of that reading. Stories of both the “return” and the “alienation” of the Muslim may be exaggerated.

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