The BJP on Tuesday chose former Jharkhand Governor and tribal leader Draupadi Murmu as its candidate for the post of President, against opposition candidate Yashwant Sinha for the election to be held on July 18. Draupadi Murmu Murmu, who hails from Odisha, becomes the first woman tribal leader to contest for the country’s highest constitutional […]
Hyderabad: The ruling TRS will support former Minister Yashwant Sinha, named as the joint Opposition parties candidate for the President polls. TRS President and Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao took a decision in this regard, following the intervention of Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar. After much deliberations, the Opposition leaders who gathered at the […]
New Delhi: The opposition parties on Tuesday announced former Union Minister Yashwant Sinha as their consensus candidate for the post of President, election for which is to be held on July 18. “We (opposition parties) have unanimously decided that Yashwant Sinha will be our common candidate for the Presidential election,” Congress leader Jairam Ramesh told […]
New Delhi: Sharad Pawar and Yashwant Sinha are likely to be fielded in the Presidential election by the Congress and the Trinamool Congress parties respectively. There has been no clarity on the BJP candidate. While Sonia Gandhi is backing Pawar, following her hospitalisation, it is unclear as to when an announcement in this regard will […]
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.
