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Mamata to skip UPA meet Friday, says Kalam
best candidate for president
Thursday June 14, 2012 07:52:06 PM,
Agencies
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New Delhi: Former
president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam is the Trinamool Congress' first
choice and the "best candidate" for president, party chief Mamata
Banerjee announced Thursday. She also announced not to attend Friday's UPA meeting on deciding
a presidential candidate.
"Kalam is the best candidate possible, he is our first choice. We
had asked for a consensus candidate, that's why we gave so many
names," Banerjee told reporters here.
"We want consensus on Kalam," she added.
Banerjee also said that she will not go back on the names she and
Samajwadi Party supreme Mulayam Singh Yadav had proposed
Wednesday.
The two leaders had proposed the names of Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh, Abdul Kalam and former Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee.
She also dared the Congress to sever links with her party, saying
while the Trinamool had not severed ties with the United
Progressive Alliance, the Congress was free to break with her
party.
Mamata Banerjee also
said she will not attend Friday's UPA meeting on deciding
a presidential candidate.
"I am not here (tomorrow Friday) as I had said that I will wait
for 26 hours and I am returning after meeting (Samajwadi Party
chief) Mulayam Singh (Yadav)," she told reporters ahead of the
meeting.
The United Progressive Alliance has called a meeting Friday to
decide on a presidential candidate.
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