"There could not be a better candidate than her", he said.
Prasad earlier in the day said that the opposition parties are still treading on the path Nitish Kumar had suggested to make the country "Sangh-mukt".
Meira Kumar, with an impressive political background, has been a five-time Member of Parliament.
"It is indeed an honour", the former Lok Sabha Speaker said in a statement.
Speaking on the occasion, CPI (M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury said Kumar was the unanimous choice of all the 17 parties and that other parties would also be urged to support her. She held the post from 2009 to 2014. She is a lawyer and a former diplomat. In 1973, she joined the Indian Foreign Service and went on to work in the embassies of UK, Spain and Mauritius.
Former Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar Sushil Kumar Modi said the Congress was insulting "Bihar ki beti" (Bihar's daughter) by forcing her to take on another Dalit candidate.
"The post of the President carries the responsibility of safeguarding and defending our constitutional principles".
Otto Warmbier suffered "severe neurological injury" while imprisoned in North Korea
That was the last time Warmbier was seen publicly - and about the same time he fell into a coma , his parents say they were told . Three other American citizens - Kim Hak-song, Kim Sang-duk and Kim Dong Chul - remain detained by the reclusive dictatorship.
The Opposition that was rallying around the candidature of former West Bengal Governor Gopal Gandhi had to change track after the BJP, nearly triumphantly, announced Ram Nath Kovind as its presidential candidate.
The Opposition on Wednesday suffered a blow as the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) announced support for National Democratic Alliance candidate Kovind. "We appeal to both the chief ministers of Odisha and Bihar to re-consider their decision and support a secular candidate like Meira Kumar". Sharad Pawar proposed the names of two other people - Kumar, ex-home minister Sushilkumar Shinde and former Planning Commission member Bhalchandra Mungekar. RJD's Lalu Prasad has termed Nitish Kumar's decision a historic blunder and wrong decision. "But Mamata Banerjee was 'dead-against" Mahatma Gandhi's grandson due to his role during her tenure as Speaker of Lok Sabha.
Paswan also commented that the Bihar government will soon collapse as the mahagathbandhan that they claim to enjoy was never a gathbandhan, it was only a opportunistic alliance to come to power. "But, they announced the name of Ram Nath Kovind without consulting us", Reddy said, criticising the BJP for not going for a consensus candidate for the top post.
BJP leader Amit Shah, who is said to be a staunch believer in astrology, consulted three of his "favourite" astrologers from Gujarat, who finally decided on the exact minute Ramnath Kovind should file his nomination papers. There was no specific reason why we did not attend Kovind's filing of nomination papers today.
All these parties have signed the nomination form.
The BJP has prepared four sets for Kovind's nomination.
"Mr. Kovind has been connected with the poor".
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