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Rajnath terms reports of his going to Lucknow 'unnecessary and futile'

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Last Updated : Mar 16 2017 | 1:48 AM IST

Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday said reports of his becoming the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh were "unnecessary and futile speculation".

Singh's denials notwithstanding, senior party and government strategists, conspicuously enough, didn't rule out the possibility of the 65-year-old leader moving to Lucknow.

A senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, on the condition of anonymity, said the choice of the UP chief minister would be determined by factors like experience, particularly the ability to take along all the competing castes and interest groups in a large complex state like UP, rather than the caste factor. Singh was the UP chief

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