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Unanimous elections to U.P. Council?

By Our Special Correspondent

LUCKNOW JAN. 17. Biennial elections to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council are likely to be unanimous this time, unlike previous occasions when money played a big role in effecting cross-voting.

Conscious efforts seem to have been made by various groups to avoid a contest for the 12 seats for which elections have been necessitated.

The number of contestants has been limited to the number of vacancies.

A thirteenth candidate, Vijay Yadav, also filed his nomination papers as a Samajwadi Party nominee but party sources said that he would withdraw from the race.

Friday was the last date for filing nominations.

The four candidates who have filed their papers on behalf of the Samajwadi Party, besides Vijay Yadav, are: Ahmad Hasan, Ram Karan Yadav, Ramesh Yadav and Vikramaditya Pandey. The SP has extended support to the Rashtriya Kranti Party's Kusum Rai for the fifth seat.

The Bahujan Samaj Party has named the Minister, Naseemuddin Siddiqui, Shrinath, advocate, and Dharam Prakash Bharti while the BJP has put up Surendra Nath Awasthi, Rajkumar Tyagi and Ramji Singh.

Mr. Awasthi is a former Congress MLA who vacated his Hydergarh Assembly seat to enable the former Chief Minister, Rajnath Singh, to contest a by-election.

The Congress nominee is the former Uttar Pradesh Minister, Ranjit Singh Judeo.

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