Janata Dal Secular has no problem with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee or Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati being fielded as the opposition's prime ministerial candidates for 2019 general elections, said former prime minister and Janata Dal Secular president, HD Deve Gowda.


"Don't try to create any type of unnecessary confusion. I have already told that I am running a coalition government here with Congress. First, Congress said Rahul Gandhi will be the prime ministerial candidate. A PTI correspondent said Congress will propose Mamata Banerjee or Mayawati as PM candidate as they want a woman candidate, I told the journalist, I have no problem with it," Deve Gowda told ANI.


Few weeks ago, while replying to a media query on who the prime ministerial face for next year's Lok Sabha elections will be, Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala said, "Naturally, the Congress president would be the only face to be projected. The Congress would fight this election by putting forward our leader." -- ANI