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Tara Shankar Sahay in New Delhi
Union Agriculture Minister Ajit Singh's Rashtriya Lok Dal is eyeing the deputy chief minister's post in Uttar Pradesh, where the Bahujan Samaj Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party are trying to cobble up a coalition government, a senior BJP leader said on Monday.
"This could possibly be the reason why the BSP chief Kanshi Ram has denied there would be a deputy chief minister if the BSP-BJP succeeded in forging a coalition in the state," the leader told rediff.com.
Ruling out a deputy chief minister's post in Uttar Pradesh, Kanshi Ram had said on Sunday that this would give rise to parallel power centres.
A buzz went around in Parliament on Monday when Kanshi Ram was seen talking to Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh and a Telegu Desam Party member of Parliament.
TDP parliamentary party leader Kinjarapu Yerran Naidu, however, laughed the matter away.
"Not much should be read into two leaders exchanging pleasantries," Naidu said.
But that did not scotch speculation about the BSP-BJP efforts to put a Mayawati-led government in place in Lucknow running into trouble.
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