Rediff On The NeT: Wooing the Wretched

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80-year-old Khairunissa votes for whoever her family asks her to. A basket-weaver, she lives in the Radhabai Chawl where the burning of a Hindu family in 1993 triggered the Mumbai riots. Living four houses away from the house that was burnt, her grand-daughter Abida says her father was imprisoned for a week as a likely suspect. "It was only when Duttsahab intervened that we could get our father back."

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