Urdu daily blames translation, not story, for Rahul's 'Muslim party' remark

'It is unfortunate that one Urdu newspaper wrote this - no one else - and the prime minister picked it up.'

On July 11, a delegation of ‘Muslim intellectuals’ met Congress President Rahul Gandhi at his residence in Delhi. According to advocate Z.K. Faizan, a member of the delegation, it was an informal meeting with no set agenda. “A day before the meeting, I received an invitation from Nadeem Javed, chairman of the All India Congress Committee’s minority department, to be present at the meeting,” said Faizan, talking to The Wire on the phone. “It was an informal meeting and lasted for about two hours. We discussed issues that were concerning Indian Muslims.”

The meeting has been described by the Bharatiya