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Politics
Yashraj Sharma

Jailed Indian Muslims fight Delhi election to ‘set the record straight’

Nooreen Fatima, walking in Delhi's Okhla constituency during campaigning for coming elections, from where her jailed husband, Shifa ur Rehman, is contesting [Yashraj Sharma/Al Jazeera]

New Delhi, India — Nooreen Fatima, 41, anxiously watches the hands of the clock, waiting for her sons to return from school. She has a surging crowd of supporters waiting for her on the corner of her street, and she needs to meet them as soon as she can.

When they arrive, she hastily collects their schoolbags, then slides into a skin-toned abaya to rush downstairs before her team stops her to shoot a crowdfunding appeal, canvassing votes for her jailed husband, Shifa ur Rehman.

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