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Samata may field candidates in Rajasthan if talks with BJP fail

The Samata Party in Rajasthan will field its candidates for 80 to 100 assembly seats for the November 25 elections if it failed to enter into any poll alliance with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.

This was decided at the party state executive committee meeting in Jaipur yesterday. Participants at the meeting were of the view that the party should ally with the BJP for the assembly elections, but if it did not work out then the party should contest the polls seriously on its own.

A nine-member state election committee, under the chairmanship of the party national general secretary Gopal Pacherwal, was also constituted at the meeting. The meeting was chaired by state president Pandit Ramkrishan.

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