Nothing perhaps typifies the dilemma dogging Muslims in India than the prevailing political situation. Muslims along with their fellow countrymen would be choosing their rulers in an election in which the choices have severely shrunk in terms of ideology, candidates and parties.
Choices are difficult because ideology has taken a back seat.
The line dividing the secular and the communal has practically vanished. The BJP-led alliance has several regional parties within itself that have consistently professed and even practised secularism. Level of communal violence has come down in the post-Bombay blast era. Even the BJP era was remarkably free of communal violence, though the Christian minority was targetted in selected pockets. But a more sinister plan of communalising the syllabus of schools, research institutions and saffronising vital institutions was put into action.