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| | News India-Times.com, Online Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Political pundits have been predicting a hung Assembly and leaders of the principal parties in the fray — Vajpayee’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which heads the government in the state, former chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party, the Congress Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) — are already exploring prospects of post-election coalitions. |
 | | The party’s handling of distribution of tickets displeased several allies and it was, perhaps, to dispel the impression of differences that NDA leaders, after a meeting in Lucknow last week, stressed that though they were fighting the election as separate parties, they would come together to form a coalition government in the state. |
 | | The Samajwadi Party, Congress Party and the BSP have all fielded a large number of Muslim candidates, and Mulayam Singh has announced unprecedented sops for the community if his party is voted to power. |
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