Hyderabad, April 9 -- When the then Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav got BJP patriarch Lal Krishna Advani arrested on October 23, 1990 and when his Uttar Pradesh counterpart, Mulayam Singh Yadav ordered police firing on Kar Sevaks in Ayodhya on October 30 and November 2 the same yearleading to death of several of them, they did not seek the advice and instruction of diplomat-turned-politician, Syed Shahabuddin, Maulana Ahmad Bukhari or Salahuddin Owaisi.

The two young first-time CMs adopted their own way to fight their battle to what they claimed for safeguarding secularism. They both earned applause and criticism for their actions.

When all this was happening in those tumultuous years in India leading to the demolition of Babri M...