Thirty-five Muslim candidates are contesting the Lok Sabha election in Gujarat but the Congress has this time broken its tradition and not fielded a single person from the community in the State.
The Congress has argued that the Bharuch Lok Sabha seat, from where it used to field a Muslim candidate traditionally, has this time gone to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) as part of the seat-sharing agreement among the Opposition INDIA bloc constituents.
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