The opposition events on Tuesday named Yashwant Sinha as their joint candidate for the President elections to be held on July 18, reported information company PTI quoting sources. “We (opposition parties) have unanimously decided that Yashwant Sinha will be the common candidate of the Opposition for the Presidential elections, said Congress leader Jairam Ramesh after the meeting.
Quitting the Trinamool Congress ahead of the Opposition meet today, Sinha wrote on Twitter, “I am grateful to Mamataji for the honour and prestige she bestowed on me in the TMC. Now a time has come when for a larger national cause I must step aside from the party to work for greater opposition unity. I am sure she approves of the step.”
After the Opposition assembly, NCP supremo Sharad Pawar declared that Opposition candidate Yashwant Sinha goes to fill the nomination for the upcoming President polls at 11:30 am on June 27. After Sharad Pawar, Gopalkrishna Gandhi and Farooq Abdullah dominated themselves out of the race, TMC proposed the title of its nationwide vice-president Sinha. “We appeal to all political parties to support Yashwant Sinha as prez so we can have a worthy ‘rashtrapati’ elected unopposed,” the Opposition assertion learn, reported PTI. Reacting to the event, TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee, who was additionally current on the assembly, advised ANI, “We are honoured that Yashwant Sinha has been nominated by the unified opposition, he was related to TMC for a very long time. We have to hold our variations apart. We have to search out somebody who will act because the custodian of the Indian Constitution: TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee
The assembly was attended by a number of Opposition events together with Congress, NCP, TMC, CPI, CPI-M, Samajwadi Party, National Conference, AIMIM, RJD and AIUDF. Congress’ Mallikarjun Kharge and Jairam Ramesh, TMC’s Abhishek Banerjee, DMK’s Tiruchi Siva, CPI-M’s Sitaram Yechury and CPI’s D Raja had been current at in the present day’s assembly. After selecting to remain out of the June 15 assembly, TRS, BJD. AAP, SAD and YSRCP additionally determined to offer in the present day’s assembly a skip.
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