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| Mamta propose Vajpayee as President |
| But as of now there is no consensus on one name. Some members want another term for President Kalam, while others are backing the Vice-President Bhair
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| INDIA
, 16-May-2007
2:0:49 AM |
| Trinamool chief Mamta Banerjee on late Tuesday evening proposed former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee's name for the post of the President at an NDA meet.
But as of now there is no consensus on one name. Some members want another term for President Kalam, while others are backing the Vice-President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat.
Meanwhile, the main opposition BJP, which is believed to have decided to field Vice-President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat as its candidate for presidential elections, on Tuesday appeared set to lobby across party lines to win support for its nominee.
Senior BJP leader LK Advani told his party MPs that he believed that an NDA nominee for the highest office stood a good chance of success if they made full efforts to ensure their candidate's election as the country's next president.
''An NDA candidate can succeed if you all try hard,'' his deputy in the Lok Sabha Vijay Kumar Malhotra, who did not name the BJP's choice officially, quoted him as telling party MPs.
With new calculations emerging after Uttar Pradesh elections, former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Advani and party chief Rajnath Singh met over the weekend and decided to name Shekhawat as a nominee for the upcoming presidential elections, party sources said.
''The NDA is likely to authorise Vajpayee to name the nominee officially. In the interim, leaders in the NDA will lobby across party lines to win support for the candidate from different quarters, political, bureaucratic as well as from those who have held top Constitutional positions,'' a party leader said.
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