Who speaks for India’s Muslims now? Who can, or is even trying to fill the Mulayam Singh Yadav-sized hole there? The answer is no one. The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP’s) rivals want the vote of Muslims, but are frightened of being seen as their leaders.
For clarity, this week’s National Interest isn’t yet another obituary, tribute or critique of the late Mulayam Singh Yadav. It is just that from the 1990s on, he had risen as the prime spokesman of Indian Muslims, “Maulana Mulayam” as the BJP mocked him. His demise is an important moment to examine the vacuum in Muslim
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