President election: Yashwant Sinha, flanked by top Opposition leaders, files nomination
India | June 27, 2022 13:57 ISTPresident Election: Yashwant Sinha is facing a stiff challenge from BJP-led NDA nominee Droupadi Murmu.
President Election: Yashwant Sinha is facing a stiff challenge from BJP-led NDA nominee Droupadi Murmu.
Droupadi Murmu said she will request BJD for support in Presidential polls as the daughter of the soil, PTI reported.
President election: Yashwant Sinha's name came up after Sharad Pawar, Gopalkrishna Gandhi and Farooq Abdullah opted out of the race.
Opposition leaders, who met in the national capital on June 15, had announced that they have decided to field one consensus candidate for the presidential polls.
"I want to tell you a serious thing. A very serious issue. If the central government or the BJP speaks about a double engine government, it means they want to run a dictatorship in Goa," Yashwant Sinha said.
Yashwant Sinha said that the Indian government should not conclude that the Taliban will place itself "in Pakistan's lap" as every country furthers its own interests.
Meanwhile, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Wednesday also said that the government is ready to resume talks with protesting farmers but asked the unions to point out their objections to the provisions of the three farm laws with sound logic.
As the second phase polling in West Bengal including Nandigram concluded on Thursday, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) said that Mamata Banerjee (Didi) is going to win the contest. Mamata Banerjee was pitted against former close aide and now BJP candidate Suvendu Adhikari.
Trinamool Congress parliamentary delegation comprising Saugata Roy, Yashwant Sinha, Md Nadimul Haque, Pratima Mondal, and Mahua Moitra met the Election Commission of India on Friday to discuss issues related to 'free and fair polling in West Bengal.
Yashwant Sinha joined the TMC days ahead of the high octane West Bengal assembly poll. Sinha exuded confidence that the TMC will win with a thumping majority and pledged support to Mamata Banerjee in her fight against the BJP.
Former BJP leader Yashwant Sinha joined Trinamool Congress (TMC) in Kolkata on Saturday ahead of the state's Assembly elections. "The country is facing an unprecedented situation today. The strength of democracy lies in the strength of the institutions of democracy. All these institutions including the judiciary have become weak now," said Sinha, right after joining TMC.
Former Union minister Yashwant Sinha, who joined West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress on Saturday, mentioned the Kandahar hijack incident to shower praises on the party supremo.
Calling Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee a "fighter," former BJP leader Yashwant Sinha after joining the TMC on March 13 claimed that the former offered herself as a hostage in exchange for passengers of the hijacked plane in 'Kandahar incident' in 1999.
Former finance minister Yashwant Sinha joined Trinamool Congress on March 13 ahead of West Bengal Assembly elections. Sinha joined TMC in the presence of Sudip Bandyopadhyay and Derek O'Brien.
Former BJP leader Yashwant Sinha joined Trinamool Congress (TMC) in Kolkata on Saturday ahead of the state's Assembly elections.
Former union finance minister Yashwant Sinha, who is presently on a 3000 km Gandhi Peace March, has said that the country's Constitution is in danger as attempts are being made to divide the country on religious lines.
Former BJP leader Yashwant Sinha on Sunday criticised the Supreme Court's judgment in the Ayodhya issue but said the Muslim community should accept it. Sinha was speaking at the Mumbai Lit Fest.
The diplomat-turned-politician held the finance and external affairs portfolios in former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's cabinet between 1998 and 2004. He also served as the finance minister under the leadership of former prime minister Chandra Shekhar during the brief period of 1990-91.
Sinha, who resigned from the BJP last year and has floated the Rashtra Manch, a non-party platform, said his advice to opposition parties was that they should come together and form strong alliances and have a common minimum programme at the national level.
Modi is the kind of man who wants to do everything himself and who is obsessed with creating history everyday. If he can become the first Indian Prime Minister to visit Timbuktu he would do so whether it is necessary and impactful or not, says former Union Minister Yashwant Sinha.
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