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New party promises to set new record

By Our Special Correspondent

CHANDIGARH, MARCH 16. The Ekta Shakti president, Virender Verma, who calls himself `Mahratta', today asserted that his party would set a new record in Haryana by winning the three Lok Sabha seats of Karnal, Kurukshetra and Ambala. His party would extend issue-based support to the dispensation at the Centre provided it was not headed by the Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, he added.

Addressing a press conference here today, Mr. Verma, a former bureaucrat, said that the Ekta Shakti was all set to win at least 65 out of 90 Assembly seats in Haryana in the next Vidhan Sabha elections. He asserted that the Ekta Shakti Government in the State would not only probe corruption cases against the three Lals -- Bhajan Lal, Om Prakash Chautala and Bansi Lal -- but also put them behind bars. While charging the three Lals of putting the State in the red through heavy borrowals, he asserted that the "funds'' raised as "loans'' would be recovered from these leaders.

While lashing out at the BJP, he accused it of taking one step further the corruption prevalent during Congress rule. He also criticised the BJP for spending public funds on the Bharat Uday Yatra of the Deputy Prime Minister, L.K. Advani.

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