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Rebels with a cause | Uttar Pradesh

The BJP's first list of candidates throws up new faces and the old problem of rebellion.

Even as the Bharatiya Janata Party prepares for a high-pitched battle against the Samajwadi Party-Bahujan Samaj Party alliance in Uttar Pradesh, it is having to contend with an acrimonious strife within. The party's announcement of the first list of candidates from UP on March 21, the evening of Holi, has caused much resentment

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