Yadav said that he lives next to defence minister Rajnath Singh's village and has spoken to MPs of 10 states, who have agreed to support him. He said he was confident about winning the presidential election riding on the support from these MPs and MLAs. Yadav added mentioned that he will make his village known to all after winning the polls.
After filing his nomination, Sinha in a press conference said: "I'm thankful to all the opposition parties who came together and chose me as their candidate."
President Election: Yashwant Sinha is facing a stiff challenge from BJP-led NDA nominee Droupadi Murmu.
In his tweet, Ram Gopal Varma said: "If DRAUPADI is the PRESIDENT who are the PANDAVAS? And more importantly, who are the KAURAVAS?"
Sources said Murmu called them up personally and spoke to them before filing her nomination for the July 18 presidential election.
Droupadi Murmu, if elected, will be the first tribal President of India and the second woman to hold the post.
Coming from a poor tribal family in the village of Mayurbhanj, a backward district in Odisha, Droupadi Murmu completed her studies despite challenging circumstances. She taught at Shri Aurobindo Integral Education Centre, Rairangpur.
The Presidential poll is round the corner. The BJP has approximately 1,00,00 less votes. So, they have chosen this time to topple the Maharashtra government in an unethical manner and using money power, Bengal Chief Minister said.
There have been precedents of legislative assemblies of states not being part of the presidential polls on account of their dissolution, the first such instance being of Gujarat in 1974.
President Election: The BJP has named Droupadi Murmu, a tribal leader of the party from Odisha, as the ruling NDA's candidate for the presidential election.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee danced hand-in-hand with tribal women on Adivasi music during a mass wedding at Alipurduar district on Wednesday.
President election: NDA government's decision to nominate a tribal woman, Droupadi Murmu, for India's top post is a reflection of the BJP’s slogan of sabka saath, sabka vikas aur sabka vishwas.
Murmu is a former Governor of Jharkhand and a former Odisha minister and is NDA's pick against Yashwant Sinha, a former Union Minister, the joint opposition candidate for the July presidential polls.
The BJP has named Droupadi Murmu, a tribal leader of the party from Odisha, as the ruling NDA's candidate for the presidential election.
Droupadi Murmu (64), if elected, will be the first tribal woman to become the President of India.
Droupadi Murmu said she will request BJD for support in Presidential polls as the daughter of the soil, PTI reported.
Droupadi Murmu (64), a former Jharkhand governor, will be the first tribal woman to occupy the top constitutional post if she is elected, a strong possibility as numbers are stacked in favour of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA).
Announcing NDA's candidate for India's next President, JP Nadda said that BJP parliamentary board discussed 20 names for presidential nominee, it was decided to pick someone from east India, a tribal and woman.
Union ministers Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh and Nitin Gadkari, BJP president J P Nadda and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, besides Modi, were part of the deliberations at the party headquarters.
President election: Yashwant Sinha's name came up after Sharad Pawar, Gopalkrishna Gandhi and Farooq Abdullah opted out of the race.
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