"Since the party has made a decision to support the NDA nominee, there is no need to attend the meeting of the opposition parties convened by Congress President Sonia Gandhi", Janata Dal-United spokesman Rajiv Ranjan said.
The Opposition suffered a major blow with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar extending his support to BJP's candidate yesterday. The numbers now seem to be in favour of Kovind, the NDA nominee for the post of the President of India.
Uddhav Thackeray had said the Sena had proposed Bhagwat's name, keeping in mind the concept of "Hindurashtra" (Hindu nation).
"We are confident he will perform as a good administrator", he said when asked about Kovind's RSS background and reports that opposition Congress may also field a Dalit candidate against NDA's pick. Kovind was the former president of the BJP Dalit Morcha. And very wisely on 19 June 2017, BJP party president, Amit Shah declared Ram Nath Kovind the candidate to contest for the President of India from NDA. "As I had said earlier, our party leaders met today, and made a decision to extend support to Ram Nath Kovind", Thackeray said.
The O.Panneerselvam (Puratchi Thalaivi Amma) faction announced its support to Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday.
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And even now, weeks after the event, I still don't know what to say about it. But Darren Garrett , from Gillingham in Dorset, took a different view.
"Kovind's selection is the biggest evidence that the Modi government is dedicated and completely committed to 'Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas".
This South Asian country uses the indirect system to choose the head of state since the legislators of both chambers of the national parliament and of the regional assemblies are the ones in charge of naming them through a single electoral college. "Whoever would be the protector of the Constitution should be above caste and religion", he said adding that his party would attend the opposition's meeting on Thursday.
The value of an MP's vote is equal to the total value of all MLA votes divided by the total number of MPs.
The Congress has expressed its displeasure with the BJP, saying they were not consulted prior to the announcement.
The CPI-M and other opposition parties will be meeting in Delhi on June 22 to discuss next steps on the presidential elections.
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