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UPA playing checkmate game on presidential choice: BJP
Thursday June 14, 2012 03:25:28 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday said the Congress and its
allies are playing "a game of checkmate" with the presidential
elections and everything is part of a "pre-written script" by
Congress chief Sonia Gandhi.
"It is a game of checkmate which Congress and its allies are
playing. The whole thing is going as part of a pre-written script
by Congress president Sonia Gandhi," BJP spokesperson Mukhtar
Abbas Naqvi told reporters here.
His comments came a day after Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee
and Vice President Hamid Ansari were named as the Congress' first
and second choice for the president's post.
Within an hour, both Trinamool chief
Mamata Banerjee and Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav,
both allies of the ruling United Progressive Alliance, announced a
different set of names - former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam,
former Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee and Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh - throwing the presidential race wide open.
Naqvi said that till today the ruling party has not come up with a
final name for the presidential elections.
"We are keeping an eye (on the happenings).. We will wait for
Congress to announce its candidate and then will come out with our
choice," he said.
The presidential elections will be held July 19, if there is a
contest. The last date of filing nominations is June 30.
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