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Advani meets Jayalalithaa, says NDA meeting tomorrow to discuss Prez poll | Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani, who met Tamil Nadu Chief Minister
J Jayalalithaa here today, said the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) will meet
tomorrow to discuss their candidates for the presidential elections. "We discussed
the presidential elections. No decision by the National Democratic Alliance (NDA)
till the Congress announces its candidate," Advani told media after the meeting.
Advani said the BJP was still discussing names. BJP leader Ananth Kumar had earlier
said the NDA would decide on the presidential candidate after the Congress party
came out with a name. "Mulayam Singh and Mamata Banerjee belonging to the Samajwadi
Party and Trinamool Congress respectively suggested three names for the presidential
post. After thinking on the suggested names, the BJP has come to the conclusion
that since the names have been suggested by the partners of the ruling government,
the Congress party should put forward their candidate for the coveted post, and
then, the NDA will respond to it," Kumar told media here last evening. Banerjee
and Mulayam had on Wednesday evening announced the names of Manmohan Singh, A.P.J.
Abdul Kalam and Somnath Chatterjee as their preferred choices for the July 19
presidential poll. Congress Party, however, ruled out sparing Manmohan Singh for
the presidential race, as it rejected the three names proposed by the two allies,
sending signals that it was not in a mood to bow before them. "Manmohan Singh
will stay prime minister till 2014. We cannot afford to spare Manmohan Singh,"
said Congress spokesperson Janardhan Dwivedi. Dwivedi also said that the names
of former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee and former President APJ Abdul
Kalam as proposed by Mamata and Mulayam were not acceptable to the Congress. The
latest developments appear to be a major blow for the ruling Congress Party, as
both Mamata and Mulayam have rejected the names of Mukherjee and Vice President
Mohammad Hamid Ansari. Mamata, who met Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday, remains non-committal
over the UPA chairperson's suggestion, saying she would revert on the issue after
discussing it with her Trinamool Congress colleagues. Trinamool Congress, with
19 members in the Lok Sabha, is the largest constituent of UPA after the Congress.
On the other hand, the Samajwadi Party, which has 22 members in the Lok Sabha,
is an outside supporter of the ruling alliance.
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