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NEW DELHI: The `fourth front' led by the former Prime Minister, V.P. Singh, will put up 193 candidates for the Uttar Pradesh polls, leaving the rest for potential allies. Senior alliance leaders said at a joint news conference here on Thursday that they were hopeful of a seat-sharing agreement with the former Union Minister, Ajit Singh's Rashtriya Janata Dal (RLD), which recently snapped its alliance with Chief Minister Mulayam Singh's Samajwadi Party. However, the prospects of a tie-up with the Congress were "bleak." In a reference to the view in the Congress to contest as many seats as possible in order to build its base in the State, Communist Party of India (CPI) leader Atul Kumar Anjaan said, "all those who are thinking only about the 2007 [U.P.] polls are welcome''. The CPI would be contesting 17 seats and a breakaway group another six. Mr. Singh's Jan Morcha will fight on 102 seats, Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan's Lok Janshakti Party 21, the former Prime Minister, Chandrasekhar's Samajwadi Janata Party six and 30 by the United Democratic Front, a conglomeration of 18 Muslim organisations led by Yaqoob Qureshi, a former UP Minister. Some seats would be allotted to "potentially strong" candidates. Two sitting Members of Parliament from U.P., who would campaign for the alliance, were also present. At a news conference earlier in the day, Mr. Paswan announced his party's list of candidates and ruled out "friendly contests" among the alliance's candidates. He said it had been left to the Jan Morcha leaders to discuss seat-sharing with the Congress and the RLD.
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