BSP’s Muslim candidates: Mostly western UP, plus Ayodhya

IN THE longest list of Muslim candidates it has ever fielded, the BSP has allotted as many of these tickets as possible in seats generally identified with the community in Uttar Pradesh. Western UP, for example has 50 Muslim BSP candidates, making up over a third of the 149 seats of that region, and over half the 97 Muslims fielded by the party.