Political 'fatwas': subverting secularism?

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Political 'fatwas': subverting secularism?

On the Road to 2014, The Buck Stops Here broadcasts from Lucknow. We debate: Is courting clerics a 'shahi' blunder? Does it insult the Muslim voter? And is courting religious leaders an insult to secularism?

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