Gearing up for the presidential and vice-presidential elections, the BJP has began reaching out to its allies, with Bihar Chief Minister and JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar being on the prime of the listing, whom Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan met on Thursday night.
The assembly got here amid stories of rising variations between the JD(U) and BJP and buzz over the saffron get together planning to position him right into a central place, together with a vice-president of the nation, reported The Indian Express.
“Not even the state unit was informed about Union Minister Pradhan’s almost two-hour meeting with the CM. We have been told it was part of BJP efforts to meet friendly CMs to ensure their support for the presidential and vice-presidential elections,” a supply within the Bihar BJP was quoted by The Indian Express as saying.
While the NDA is comfortably positioned for each the elections when it comes to votes, Opposition events have indicated their intention to place up joint candidates for the 2 posts. Notably, Kumar has prolonged help to presidential candidates fielded by the rival events earlier.
In 2012, he had supported the Opposition’s Pranab Mukherjee for President, regardless of being part of the NDA on the time. In 2017, when he was within the Grand Alliance with the RJD and Congress, he had chosen to help the NDA candidate for President, Ram Nath Kovind, as an alternative of Opposition nominee Meira Kumar.
The Indian Express quoted sources saying that the BJP’s resolution to ship Pradhan to fulfill Kumar in a placatory gesture was taken after dialogue between Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP chief J P Nadda.
The BJP has additionally reached out to the BJD and YSR Congress Party and it’s reported that the 2 events will vote for the BJP.
MPs within the Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha vote within the vice-presidential election, which is due in August, and the BJP-led NDA has a transparent edge in each Houses.
The electoral school for the presidential election consists of the 776 MPs of the Lok Sabha (543) and Rajya Sabha (233), in addition to MLAs of state Assemblies and the Union Territories of Delhi and Puducherry. The complete votes are counted on the idea of their worth, which varies from state to state, with an Uttar Pradesh MLA carrying the best worth adopted by Maharashtra and West Bengal.
The current Assembly elections, wherein the BJP put up a spectacular efficiency in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Manipur and Goa, have cemented the BJP’s edge within the presidential elections as effectively.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”