Congress President and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi held discussions with the UPA allies regarding the president candidate. Pranab Mukherjee moved the resolution authorising Sonia to select the candidates at the CWC meet recently.
RLD chief and civil aviation minister Ajit Singh had met the Congress President. Ailing DMK supremo M. Karunanidhi also had deputed his son M.K. Stalin to meet the Congress president and had held talks with Sonia Gandhi. Last month the Congress president had dispatched Defence Minister A. K. Antony to Chennai to take the DMK patriarch on board to endorse the UPA nominee.
Sonia Gandhi also had talked to other allies including Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee and NCP boss Sharad Pawar.
With no credible candidate emerging from the Opposition ranks, the UPA nominee is expected to win the race. The AIADMK and the BJD have proposed the name of former Speaker P.A. Sangma, which got the support of BJP too now. But even allies of NDA like JD(U) and Shiv Sena and some constituents of Left also would be supporting the UPA nominee.
This article is posted by pressbrief.in
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