Even as expectations of special packages for Muslim minorities are expected in the Union Budget, the UPA faces angry demands from the victims of the 1989 Bhagalpur riots, who allege discrimination within different minority groups. Outside the Raj Bhawan in Patna, widows break into the high security zone in distress. Memories of the Bhagalpur riots, that claimed a thousand lives nearly 18 years ago, are still fresh.
