Prez poll: BJP core group to meet, decide future course
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The BJP is expected to finalise its stand in the core group meeting. This will be conveyed to the NDA which will meet on Sunday.
The
scenario changed for the BJP when SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav extended
support to Mukherjee. Earlier he had been pitching for APJ Abdul Kalam.
When
Trinamool Congress and Samajwadi Party floated the name of Kalam, BJP
saw an opportunity to lend its support to the former President.
According
to reports, key NDA ally JD (U) may suggest a consensus on Mukherjee's
candidature keeping his stature in mind and also as the opposition lacks
the numbers.
The BJP-led NDA meeting on Friday had failed to come up with a candidate.
Immediately
after the announcement of Mukherjee's candidature by Congress President
Sonia Gandhi at the UPA meeting on Friday, Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh had reached out to other parties including the BJP to seek support
for the senior leader.
He
called up BJP leaders L K Advani, Nitin Gadkari and its leaders in Lok
Sabha and Rajya Sabha Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley respectively.
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