Muslim votes hold the key in UP elections

The master key to political ascension in Uttar Pradesh might lie in joining a greater share of the Muslim votes with their traditional vote-banks for three of the four main arguing parties.Identifying this, Congress, the Samajwadi Party and the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party are going all out to the Muslim voters. Some 16% of the state's electorate is Muslim. The community is more densely populated in the western districts. Following to the delimitation exercise, there are now some 50 assembly constituencies where Muslims account for more than 25% of the electorate.
This is why cues to the upcoming elections should be taken from electoral performance of parties in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections rather than the 2007 assembly elections. The general elections were held after limitation