"She (Meira Kumar) has been the Speaker of Lok Sabha, having knowledge on external affairs matters and above all the daughter of Jagjivan Ram", Reddy pointed out.
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.
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Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav, whose father Mulayam Singh Yadav is toeing a different line, said his party will join the Congress-led opposition.
"Should a person who is opposed to reservation for Muslim and Christian minorities occupy the post of the President", Telangana Congress chief N Uttam Kumar Reddy on Friday wondered, referring to the NDA's Presidential candidate Ram Nath Kovind. It was Nitish who had set the ball rolling for a joint opposition candidate for the presidential poll back in April. It's more of a reactive move and unlikely to earn any dividends for the Opposition which is by no means united (read Nitish Kumar). "I appeal to every political party to support".
The RJD strongman, whose party along with the Congress is in a coalition government with Nitish Kumar's JD-U in Bihar, said while he would request Kumar to reconsider the matter, there would be no threat to the state government, which would continue despite the JD-U's decision.
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They admitted that Kovind's nomination had dented opposition unity with the JD-U declaring its support to the NDA nominee. Earlier, when the all-party meeting took place, Sharad Yadav had suggested that we should not decide on the candidate so soon and should wait for the Government to come up with its candidate.
BJP chief Amit Shah had announced the name of Kovind as NDA's consensus candidate for the post of Indian President.
"This is a fight of ideologies, no midway here".
JD (U) spokesperson KC Tyagi said that the JD (U) will not attend the meeting of the Opposition parties on June 22, saying the meeting is now "irrelevant" for his party after its support to Kovind.
In a late-evening phone call to CPI (M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury, Mr Azad is learnt to have conveyed Mrs Gandhi's message that the Congress would contest the polls at all costs. She was also likely to get support from BSP supremo Mayawati, who has said she would be forced to support Mr Kovind if the Opposition did not field another dalit.
The former Bihar Governor and BJP's Dalit leader said the President was the supreme commander of the armed forces.
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