New Delhi [India]July 18 (ANI): Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) leader Chirag Paswan, who attended the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) meeting on Sunday, said that he is not part of NDA or any alliance.
NDA ministers and leaders held a meeting in Parliament on Sunday ahead of the monsoon session starting on Monday.
Chirag Paswan also attended the meeting.
“The NDA meeting was held to discuss the Presidential election. Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) supported NDA candidate Draupadi Murmu. Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) has always worked to bring the poor, backward, tribals and dalits into the mainstream.
When asked about the future strategy, Paswan said, “We will fight the Bihar elections in alliance, but at the moment I am not part of any alliance.” Today I am neither with NDA, nor with UPA nor with any grand alliance. With whom I will form an alliance, it will be announced before the elections.
Meanwhile, Union Minister Ram Das Athawale, who attended the NDA meeting, said, “It is good that Congress party has given ticket to Margaret Alva for Vice President. She is a senior leader of Congress party. NDA despite everything. BJP has majority and giving ticket to Margaret Alva is not a solution for Congress.NDA’s presidential candidate Jagdeep Dhankhar will win.
Union Minister Gajendra Shekhawat said that there is no chance of opposition candidate winning the Vice Presidential election as NDA has majority.
“We have majority and there is no chance for any other candidate (to win). It would be better if the opposition conducts the election unopposed,” Shekhawat told ANI.
The Congress-led opposition has fielded former Union minister Yashwant Sinha against Draupadi Murmu for the presidential election on July 18. Counting of votes will take place on July 21. The term of President Ram Nath Kovind will end on July 24.
Murmu is a former Governor of Jharkhand and a former Minister of Odisha. If elected, she will be India’s first tribal president and the country’s second woman president.
Voting for the next President of India will begin on July 18 while the counting of votes will take place on July 21.
The BJP on Saturday nominated former West Bengal governor Jagdeep Dhankhar as the NDA’s candidate for the vice-presidential election. Dhankhar, who resigned on Sunday as the Governor of West Bengal, will file his nomination on Monday.
Meanwhile, senior Congress leader and former Union Minister Margaret Alva has been nominated as the joint opposition candidate for the Vice Presidential election to be held on August 6.
Alva will file her nomination on Tuesday. (ANI)
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