Prez poll: Rajnath, Naidu to meet Sonia today

June 16, 2017 10:53

Union Ministers Rajnath Singh and M Venkaiah Naidu will meet Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Communist Party of India-Marxist General Secretary Sitaram Yechury today to hold talks for a possible consensus in electing the next President.

Both the Union Ministers have already spoken to Nationalist Congress Party's Praful Patel and Bahujan Samaj Party's Satish Mishra.

"The minutes of the meeting will be discussed with the rest of our party and the sub-committee that has been set up ahead of the polls. We will consider the opinion of all," Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge told ANI.

Denying reports of the Congress supporting Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Chief Mohan Bhagwat, Kharge asserted that being a secular party, Bhagwat will not be furthered as a suitable candidate for the post of President.

"We are a secular party. We will never support Mohan Bhagwat; neither will the other parties. His name is being recommended by the Shiv Sena. We will choose a candidate from a secular party," he said.

Recently, Sonia Gandhi met various leaders from opposition parties to give a tough fight to the ruling National Democratic Alliance government's candidate for President post.

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