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Name PM candidate now, Sena tells NDA
Tuesday June 19, 2012 03:15:45 PM,
IANS
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Mumbai: Hours after
announcing its support for UPA presidential nominee Pranab
Mukherjee, the Shiv Sena Tuesday demanded that the NDA should
declare its prime ministerial candidate now.
Sena leader and Rajya Sabha MP Bharatkumar Raut told IANS that the
National Democratic Alliance should name its choice of prime
minister for the 2014 Lok Sabha election.
"We feel that the NDA should take this step but only after
consultation with all the parties in the alliance," Raut said.
He appeared to endorse Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's similar
demand on the NDA, widely perceived as a tactic aimed at
neutralizing the prime ministerial ambitions of some Bharatiya
Janata Party leaders.
Earlier, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray set at rest all speculation
by announcing his party's support for the ruling United
Progressive Alliance presidential nominee Mukherjee.
In the last presidential election too, the Shiv Sena broke ranks
with the BJP and voted for UPA's Pratibha Patil as she is a
Marathi.
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