CPI's D Raja says he has no idea what first choice or second choice for president means. He says the Left parties are united in their choice for the presidential candidate but will reserve their announcement till the Congress makes a formal statement.

Mamata is in a meeting with Mulayam Singh Yadav now. While the SP has been vocal about not wanting a bureaucrat, the party has never said Hamid Ansari, who is the Cong's second choice, is a bureaucrat.