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IJP claims to be Dalit well-wisher, announces candidates Lucknow, Apr 2 : Issuing an appeal to all those Dalits who were disillusioned with the Mayawati-led BSP, to support her party, the Indian Justice Party (IJP) President Udit Raj today said his outfit was the only sympathiser of their lot. ''If there were no reservation provisions, the BSP would not have given ticket to the Dalits,'' he said at a press conference, while releasing a list of 80 candidates from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Gujarat, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Uttarkhand, West Bengal and Delhi. The IJP would contest the poll from a total of 23 seats in UP. Mr Raj would himself contest the election from Fatehpur Lok abha seat, while Mustak Khan and Ramakant were the party nominees from Lucknow and Allahabad constituencies. The other Parliamentary seats where the party has fielded its candidates included Dumariyaganj, Chandauli, Jhansi, Mirzapur, Kushinagar, Amroha, Phulpur, Varanasi, Jaunpur, Banda, Hamirpur, Gorakhpur, Kaushambi, Barabanki, Jalaun, Bulandshehar, Aonla, Ghaziabad, Kairana and Baghpat. --- UNI
