Sonia to meet Mamata, Mayawati to discuss common candidate for presidential poll

May 03, 2017 19:05

Congress president Sonia Gandhi will hold discussions with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati within 10 days to discuss a strategy for fielding a common opposition candidate for the upcoming Presidential election, party sources said.

A senior party functionary said Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi also spoke to former Uttar Pradesh chief minister and Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav in this regard.

Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar, CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, Janata Dal-United leader Sharad Yadav and CPIs D Raja have already met the Congress president and stressed on the need to have a common opposition candidate to defeat the NDA nominee in the presidential election.

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