What makes the presidential election complex is the mathematics involved in it. The electoral college comprises of all elected MPs and MLAs, whose vote has a defined weightage depending on size of the population.
Sushma termed these speculative reports as mere “rumours” and added that she cannot say anything on BJP’s presidential candidate as it’s an internal matter of the party.
“They (BJP leaders) did not propose any name,” Yechury said, reiterating his party’s stand that a candidate with “impeccable secular credentials” should be the next president.
“Government has not come forward with any name for the Presidential election and has asked if the opposition has any name for the top post,” Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said after the meeting.
The two leaders- Rajnath Singh and M Venkaiah Naidu- are likely to seek Congress party’s support for the ruling NDA’s presidential candidate.
NCP chief Sharad Pawar and Congress' Ghulam Nabi Azad rejected the proposal citing objectionable conduct by some AAP members.
The Left parties are mulling to propose the candidature of former West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi for the post of President, said sources in the CPI-M and CPI
A crucial meeting of the BJP committee comprising Union minister Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley and Venkaiah Naidu with Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Friday for consultations on the presidential election could decide the course to follow
The sub-group would discuss how to go about the presidential and vice-presidential elections.
While the opposition is trying hard to come up with a name for the upcoming presidential polls, the Centre is confident that the NDA candidate will win the poll with at least 54 per cent votes
Banerjee, who is also the TMC chief, is already in the national capital, and is likely to meet Sonia Gandhi separately tomorrow.
CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Friday said that the next President of the country should have impeccable secular credentials and hinted that his party is not averse to supporting the TMC and other opposition parties for electing such a c
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