Opposition to meet today over Presidential polls

June 14, 2017 09:51

With the date of nominating candidates for the upcoming Presidential polls inching closer, opposition parties are slated to meet at 4 pm in new Delhi today to deliberate on the same.

The Presidential election will be held on July 17. President Pranab Mukherjee's term comes to an end on July 24,

Earlier in May, Congress president Sonia Gandhi called on the leaders of the Opposition to build a consensus on the Presidential nominee.

Leaders of 17 parties namely JD (U), CPI, CPI-M, SP, DMK, NCP, RJD and TMC, besides some other regional parties attended the meeting.

While Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar indicated his support in favour of Mukherjee if he secured a second term as the President, the Congress and the BJP so far has been non-committal on a second term for him.

Contrary to this, the Shiv Sena, an ally of the BJP in Maharashtra had proposed RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's name as the National Democratic Alliance's candidate for the country's top constitutional post earlier too

The Election Commission said the last date of nomination is June 28 and the counting of votes will be taken up on July 20.

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