Rahul Gandhi, the star campaigner of Congress Party who has raised his stakes quite high in the ongoing election in Uttar Pradesh, met some select editors over breakfast in New Delhi. He said that the Congress had secured around 8 per cent of the total votes in the 2007 assembly elections in UP. If this time he is able to double the vote-base of the Congress, then he would term the outcome of the election as a success.
"The reality, across the world today is that while non-Muslims are the proclaimed targets of the Islamist extremists and the so-called global jihad, it is Muslims who are its principal victims," Gill said.