But the Taliban have never contested an election before.
The Malhotras have never contested the charges, and have since returned to India.
It was wrong to take the money, I've never contested that.
If he manages, the PDP might even ask him to stand for another term, since other leaders have never contested an election they were not sure to win.
Mr. Hazare himself said, when he began his anti-corruption campaign in Delhi in April, that he had never contested an election because he was certain to lose.
As Larry Diamond, a senior adviser to the C.P.A., warned Bremer in a March, 2004, memorandum, "Political parties that have never contested democratic elections before tend to fall back upon their worst instincts and experience.
In power for the first time, after years in opposition, the Islamists were keen to gain the acceptance of the electorate and King Mohammed VI, whose supremacy they had never contested.
Hamilton, who have been Scottish Cup runners-up twice, have never contested a League Cup final.
