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CPI to contest five Assembly seats in Orissa

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, APRIL 2. The Communist Party of India (CPI) today successfully concluded seat-sharing arrangements with the Congress in Orissa with the latter giving it five Assembly seats. The party also opened negotiations for a similar adjustment in Uttar Pradesh.

The Congress agreed to leave the Kakatpur, Kavisurya Nagar, Chhattarpur, Malkangir and Bijaipur Assembly seats for the CPI. The CPI had also sought at least one Lok Sabha seat, but the request was not accommodated. The CPI national secretary, D. Raja, and the Congress leader, Salman Khursheed, are now holding preliminary discussions for seat adjustments in Uttar Pradesh.

The CPI had earlier announced its candidates for the Ghosi, Ghazipur, Gonda, Banda, Macchlishahr and Shahjehanpur Lok Sabha seats. In Ghosi, the CPI national secretary, Atul Anjaan, would remain in fray even though the Congress has fielded Sudha Rai, wife of the former Union Minister, Kalpnath Rai. The Congress has said it would consider setting aside Ghazipur and Banda for the CPI, and the latter has expressed its willingness to withdraw its candidate from Shahjehanpur in favour of the Congress candidate, Jiten Prasad, son of the late Jitendra Prasada.

In Uttar Pradesh, the Congress is negotiating seat-sharing arrangements with the Lok Janshakti Party, the Rashtravadi Communist Party and the Bharatiya Kisan Union, among others.

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