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Wednesday, Apr 14, 2004

Andhra Pradesh

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MIM, BJP candidates fail to turn up

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, APRIL 13. The attempt to bring the contestants for the Yakutpura Assembly seat on a common platform for an interaction with the electorate met with lukewarm response here on Tuesday.

Only two of the four contestants invited for the `Open forum', an initiative of PUCAAR-Lok Satta, turned up. Mumtaz Ahmed Khan, Majlis MLA in the dissolved Assembly, and the BJP candidate, Sirajunnisa Begum, were conspicuous by their absence.

"It is a good opportunity for the candidates to explain their point of view but they are not realising this," remarked the forum observer, Ali Asghar.

Some persons in the audience were also critical of the absence of the Majlis and BJP candidates.

The open forum proceedings turned out to be more of an election programme with Raza Hussain Azad of the Congress and Abdul Ghani of the MBT delivering speeches. They merely kept assuring the audience that they would attend to all their problems. Mr. Ghani said he had been doing social service for the last three decades. He proposed to set up a school to provide free education besides opening a small-scale industry for women.

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