Desperate not to lose Muslim votes in the post-9/11 era, the government agreed to all its demands for protection from abuse.

And parties representing the low castes and varied regions of this vast nation aggressively seek Muslim votes.

The political parties of the low castes and the peasant castes are competing ferociously for Muslim votes.

It basically delivers the Muslim vote to Ramos's camp in '98, which will count.

One of these, the new Glasgow Central constituency, might have been his best chance with a relatively large Muslim vote.

The Muslim vote is too dispersed to have any major impact on the national scene.

The Muslim vote, my Calcuttan friend said bitterly, had become like an item number in Hindi films.

The real issue is the Muslim vote.

There is some bitterness, too, that the Muslim vote is so fissured.

It won nearly all of the Muslim vote in the elections of 1946.