Mulayam wants 'eminent Muslim' for India's top post

May 03, 2012 16:35

This is what Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav said on the Presidential candidate today. "We cannot discuss Presidential election at this moment, when candidates are announced, then you can take my view," he said.

On whether the President should be a person with political background, he said, "The President should always be a political person."

Pratibha Patil, the country's first woman President, will demit office on July 25 after completing her five-year term. Samajwadi Party, which is an outside supporters of UPA, had on Tuesday said that it would favour an eminent Muslim candidate for the top post.

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