The credit for its discovery goes to a CPM MP, M K Pandhe, who confidently certified that "an overwhelming majority of the Muslim masses" opposed the deal. He urged the Samajwadi leader Mulayam Singh Yadav not to alienate them by supporting the deal. He was repudiated by CPM's leaders.
But Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati saw an opening and jumped into the fray. She said the UPA government's decision to proceed with the nuclear deal had angered Muslims and accused the Congress as well as the Samajwadi Party of attacking her because they saw Muslims shifting to the BSP.
That was enough for a group of clerics to call on her in a delegation the very next day to congratulate her for her stand. An official press release claimed that the religious leaders urged her to use her influence to prevent the "anti-national" deal.
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