The election for the next President of India is scheduled to be held on July 17. But he was non-committal on whether his Janata Dal-United will support Kovind.
Kovind, who is Governer of Bihar, was named by the NDA as its presidential candidate on Monday.
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"If someone decides to talk to us after the name is announced, we would tell them that we do not know this person".
Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad declined to go into the merits and demerits of Kovind and did not say whether or not the opposition will field a candidate. "But still till now we have not announced any name for the Presidential candidate from our side, because we had decided this in all party meeting that decision will be taken with consensus", Azad said.
Shah further said that the saffron party hoped that the Dalit nominee, Kovind, would remain unchallenged as the choice and would be unanimously selected as the President of India.
A Rashtrapati Bhavan communique said Kovind's resignation has been accepted.
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Nitish also said that "I had a word with Laluji and Sonia Gandhi, and there will be discussion on this".
Ram Nath Kovind believes that if the president of the country can be criticised, there is no reason why members of the judiciary cannot be pulled up.
Sitaram Yechury of the CPI-M struck a different note. "We are not commenting or giving any character certificate to anyone".
A commerce graduate who also studied law at Kanpur University, he practised in the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court.
Kovind was twice elected to the Rajya Sabha (Upper House of the Parliament) in 1994 and again in 2000 from Uttar Pradesh.
"Although Kovind has been associated with the RSS and the BJP from the beginning but since he is a Dalit, our partys stand towards him can not be negative".
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