The Sena, which shares power at the Center and in Maharashtra, has had a conflicted relationship with the BJP.
For the record, the Congress said the question whether they would be putting up a candidate against Kovind will be known only after Thursday's meeting.
The NDA's current strength in the electoral college is 5,37,683, which is 48.93% of the total votes, The Times of India reports. It read that after announcing the candidature of Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to Rao over phone and requested his support for the NDA's candidate.
Even though the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) has extended support to NDA's Presidential candidate, our fight against Central negligence will continue, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik clarified here on Tuesday. Also controversies have created resentment among Dalits and is said to be building against the party.
Kumar said he had held discussions with JD (U) chief and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in this regard.
JD (U) has been a part of the Opposition's joint initiative on the presidential elections.
Kovind, 71, has been the Bihar Governor since August 2015. The Bihar chief minister has been known to oppose other political parties, as was the case in the demonetization decision.
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He said he felt he and his partner were in danger. "There is no question in my mind that he just lost it and started shooting". The video includes audio from a microphone Yanez was wearing and a conversation he had with his supervisor about the shooting.
Hailing from backward region of Derapur tehsil of rural Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh, Kovind was BJP's Lok Sabha candidate from Ghatampur seat in 1990.
The Left parties are keen on the opposition putting up a candidate because they see the Presidential election as an "ideological battle" and the NDA candidate as an RSS-backed man. The Election Commission of India (ECI) issued the notification in this regard and the process of the nomination will culminate on June 28.
Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav, whose father Mulayam Singh Yadav is toeing a different line, said that his party would go with the opposition led by Congress.
Most of the 18 opposition parties, which had come together for the objective of the presidential election, and had met on June 14, are now scheduled to meet again at the Parliament Annexe tomorrow (June 22), and this time Congress president Sonia Gandhi is also expected to attend and chair the meeting at the Parliament Library.
BJP had appointed Kovind as Bihar governor ahead of 2015 assembly polls in the state.
"We are thinking of Prakash Ambedkar". We haven't yet decided our stand on Kovind.
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