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Congress has no qualms in fielding '84 riots accused

The Delhi Pradesh Congress today said there was no dispute in the party about fielding those accused in the 1984 riots and claimed that a recent controversy regarding this was a ''media creation.''

Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and Pradesh Congress President Subhash Chopra said former Union minister and party nominee for the south Delhi seat Manmohan Singh had at no stage made his contesting the elections conditional on Sajjan Kumar and Jagdish Tytler being denied the party tickets.

''Dr Singh himself has said that he never made any such comment at any stage. These are misunderstandings created by the media,'' Chopra said at a press conference in New Delhi.

Claiming that the Congress was poised to repeat its success of the assembly elections in the Lok Sabha polls, Chopra introduced to the press Janata Dal corporators Razia Sultana from Jaffrabad and Zamir Ahmed from Seelampur, who had joined the party. Former rebel Congress Member of the Legislative Assembly Matin Ahmed, who was also present at the press conference, said he would work for the victory of the Congress candidates.

Asked about the delay in the announcing of Congress candidates for four of the seven Lok Sabha seats in the capital, Dikshit quipped, ''slow and steady wins the race.''

Congress Working Committee member and party candidate from New Delhi R K Dhawan was also present.

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