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landowners to obtain land to construct a building for the Kisan Sangh. Lakshman was expelled from the Kisan Sangh and subsequently involved himself with organising the sugar mill workers. He became the
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he ran against Prasad, but received only 109 votes. However, in 1958 he was elected to
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and although He put up his name for a number of other elections, he did not launch a serious campaign and remained out of politics for most of the rest of his life.
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