West Asia-Syrian Veto


he was actually offered the post of deputy chief minister. Now, barely months later, the Kranti Ranga candidate has done so badly in Kanakapura that he secured even fewer votes than the candidate of a non-existent Charam Singh Lok Dal (316 as against the Lok Dal candidate's 382 out of a total poll of 69,153 votes). The KKR candidate has done equally poorly in the other by-election in the Yel- burga constituency in Raichur district, polling 1,197 votes out of a total poll of 51,229 votes and once again losing his security ' deposit.