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Arun Nehru says "No that's all rubbish. It was all prior agreement. Its basically before the meeting Devi Laljee's had said that he was the senior-most and he should be the PM and we stuck to our guns saying that the vote is for VP Singh. He was the leader when we went to the elections. The electorate has voted for him and if fact I was handling the matters at that stage and I told the Devi Lal jee that if you want, this is not the congress party. We will have an election and I knew when he also knew there out of the numbers which we had 160 0r 170. I forget the exact numbers. He wouldn't even got in , he didn't want the contest. He just wanted to bulldoze and become the Prime Minister and then we negotiated and he wanted to be Deputy Prime Minister with a certain portfolio and we off