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SP fields ace defector Chandrika Kenia from Thane

The Samajwadi Party on Monday announced the candidature of former Maharashtra minister of state and Rajya Sabha MP Chandrika Kenia from the Thane Lok Sabha constituency.

Kenia defected to the Samajwadi Party on Sunday from the Congress which she had rejoined in 1992 after quitting the Shiv Sena, the Samajwadi Party's Maharashtra unit president, Hussain Dalwai, told reporters in Bombay.

Speaking to reporters, Kenia who was minister of state for education in the S B Chavan ministry from 1986 to 1988 and then a Shiv Sena MP, said she had joined the Samajwadi Party to strengthen the hands of party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav.

Kenia said she had a lot of expectations from the Congress as well as the Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party alliance in the state, but it had proved to be most inefficient, with rampant corruption, extortion and atrocities on women and dalits.

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