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Muzaffarnagar: After Kanwar Hasan, Lok Dal candidate for Kairana bypoll, joined Rashtriya Lok Dal in a dramatic turn of events, Lok Dal’s national president Sunil Singh has written to Election Commission urging it to cancel the registration of RLD. According to political observers, if Kanwar Hasan would have contested, it could have caused an upset to grand alliance’s Tabassum Hasan. “We have sources who confirmed that deal between Jayant Chaudhry and Kanwar Hasan had taken place for Rs 8 crore. We have requested to Election Commission to conduct a probe into the matter.”On Thursday, SP-RLD candidate Tabassum Hasan’s estranged brother-in-law and Lok Dal candidate Kanwar Hasan joined RLD in the presence of party vice-president Jayant Chaudhary. He also petitioned the commission to institute an inquiry by income tax department and CBI into RLD’s financial sources.Speaking at a press conference, Singh accepted that he wrote a letter to Election Commission..