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| 'Open Mind' If PM Modi Wants To Con |
| 'Open Mind' If PM Modi Wants To Consult Us On Next President, Says Congress
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| INDIA
, 3-May-2017
12:57:52 PM |
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While the Congress attempts to bring opposition parties together in what it is pegging as a battle of ideologies, party sources also said that it will have an "open mind" if Prime Minister Narendra Modi consults it for a consensus candidate acceptable to all parties for the next President of India. The Congress is also open, the sources said, to supporting a second term for President Pranab Mukherjee, who has said he will consider one only if the government asks him.
But, they added, they do not see the likelihood of PM Modi approaching the Congress. "Modi will not consult the opposition. He does not consult his own cabinet, leave alone allies and senior BJP leaders...He follows 'my way or the highway' policy," said a Congress leader Randeep Surjewala.
Mr Surjewala told NDTV that both party president Sonia Gandhi and her son and deputy Rahul Gandhi have met leaders of different parties to discuss possible candidates and a "structured meeting" will follow.
An initial round of meetings was initiated by Sonia Gandhi, who met Left leader Sitaram Yechury, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Nationalist Congress Party leader Sharad Pawar, whose name has also come up as a possible candidate for President. She has talked to Samajwadi Party's Mulayam Singh Yadav and Lalu Yadav of the RJD on phone.
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