Via PTI
NEW DELHI: Former Union minister Yashwant Sinha’s title has emerged because the consensus presidential candidate of 13 opposition events, together with the Congress, the TMC and the Samajwadi Birthday celebration, which met right here on Tuesday to talk about the problem.
Opposition leaders, who collected on the Parliament annexe for the assembly convened through NCP leader Sharad Pawar to come to a decision on a consensus candidate for the presidential election, agreed on Sinha’s title, they mentioned.
Sinha’s title got here up after Pawar, Gopalkrishna Gandhi and Farooq Abdullah opted out of the race.
The events that attended the assembly come with the Congress, NCP, TMC, CPI, CPI-M, Samajwadi Birthday celebration, Nationwide Convention, AIMIM, RJD and AIUDF.
We (opposition events) have unanimously made up our minds that Yashwant Sinha would be the commonplace candidate of the Opposition for the Presidential elections: Congress chief Jairam Ramesh percent.twitter.com/lhnfE7Vj8d
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Congress’ Mallikarjun Kharge and Jairam Ramesh, TMC’s Abhishek Banerjee, DMK’s Tiruchi Siva, CPI-M’s Sitaram Yechury and CPI’s D Raja had been amongst those that participated within the assembly.
5 regional events thought to be non-aligned – TRS, BJD, AAP, SAD and YSRCP — stayed away.
Those events had additionally stayed clear of the June 15 assembly convened through West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee.
Previous these days, Yashwant Sinha had mentioned that he’s going to “step apart” from the TMC to paintings for the bigger nationwide reason for Opposition cohesion. “I’m thankful to Mamataji for the respect and status she bestowed on me within the TMC. Now a time has come when for a bigger nationwide motive I should step except for the birthday party to paintings for higher opposition cohesion. I’m positive she approves of the step,” Sinha mentioned in a tweet.