Now it is fight between
Kovind and Meera
New Delhi:
Former Lok Sabha speaker and senior Congress leader Meira Kumar is
Opposition's candidate to take on NDA nominee Ram Nath Kovind for
Presidential elections.
The decision was taken after Opposition parties met in the
national capital on Thursday, 22nd June 2017. Announcing the Kumar's candidature, Sonia said,
"We will appeal to all political parties to support Presidential candidate
Meira Kumar."
Congress president Sonia Gandhi, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, RJD chief Lalu Prasad, Sharad Pawar (NCP), Sitaram Yechury from
CPI(M), D Raja (CPI), Darek O' Brien (TMC), Ram Gopal Yadav (SP), Satish Chandra Mishra (BSP),
Omar Abdullah (NC), Kanimozhi (DMK) and Ghulam Nabi Azad, Mallikarjun
Kharge attended the meet.
Cracks
had appeared in the Opposition ahead of Thursday's crucial meeting, with the JD(U) deciding to
stay out of the talks after extending its support to NDA nominee Ram Nath
Kovind yesterday.
Ram Nath Kovind (born 1 October 1945) is the NDA candidate in the
Presidential Election of India. Kovind
is a Dalit leader[ and member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).He was Governor of Bihar from 2015 to
2017.
On 19 June 2017, BJP president Amith Shah declared Kovind
the NDA candidate for the post of President
of India.
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