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| Race for Rashtrapati Bhawan |
| Race for Rashtrapati Bhawan: APJ Abdul Kalam a good choice, says Samajwadi Party
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| INDIA
, 23-April-2012
5:39:21 AM |
| The race for Rashtrapati Bhawan is hotting up. A day after Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar said a non-political person should be the next President, now the Samajwadi Party has backed him.
"Sharad Pawar has said that next President should be non-political. I feel that President should be a great man," SP leader Shahid Siddiqui said today.
And the party once again put its weight behind Dr APJ Abdul Kalam.
"In 2002, Mulayam Singh had forwarded the name of Abdul Kalam for the Presidentship. We don't have any problem if Mr Kalam becomes President," Mr Siddhiqui added.
Mr Pawar, meanwhile, said today that he never said that an apolitical person should be chosen as President.
"All I have said that after seeing UPA and NDA numbers, all political parties need to sit together and an agreed candidate should be chosen and a dialogue process should be initiated. I never said non-political, I said agreed candidates. It was reported as apolitical," Mr Pawar said.
Becoming the first UPA leader to express in public his preference for the presidential candidate, Mr Pawar had said yesterday that he feels that "a non-political person can be an ideal choice."
The race for Rashtrapati Bhawan has resulted in most unlikely of political friendships. There are reports that Samajwadi Party and the Trinamool Congress may join hands for the presidential polls. Mr Kiranmay Nanda, a Samajwadi Party leader from West Bengal and a Rajya Sabha MP met West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee last Tuesday for over an hour. He is believed to have discussed alignment for the Presidential elections to be held in June this year to find a successor to Pratibha Patil. The last day for filing the nomination is May 24.
The Samajwadi Party leaders also met with their counterparts in the AIADMK on Thursday. Reports suggest that former President APJ Abdul Kalam could emerge as a consensus candidate.
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