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Mamata rejects Pranab, insists on Kalam for Presidentship
Clean Media Correspondent
New Delhi, June 14 (CMC) The Trinamool Congress stood firm that it will not accept finance minister Pranab Mukherjee as President and rejected the Congress' criticism that party chief Mamata Banerjee had acted "unethically" on Thursday.
Banerjee will not attend the meeting of UPA leaders in Delhi on Friday and will
support APJ Abdul Kalam for President. Trinamool leaders rejected allegations that Banerjee had "broken decorum" when she announced in Delhi that Mukherjee and vice president Hamid Ansari were the Congress's choice for the President's post.
Trinamool Congress leaders claimed Banerjee announced their names after taking Congress president Sonia Gandhi's consent during their meeting.
The Congress on Thursday said it cannot spare Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for the President's post. It also rejected former president Kalam and former speaker Somnath Chatterjee proposed by the Trinamool and the Samajwadi Party.
"When Mamata met her (Sonia Gandhi), the Congress chief told her that these two names have come up for presidential elections. When two names have come up, this does not mean that Congress has decided on one name," Congress leader Janardhan Dwivedi told reporters.
Dwivedi said that such talks happen indoors and should not be talked in public.
"None of other allies have spoken about names in public. Had the Congress decided the name, then there would have been one name not two..."
Mamata rejects Pranab, insists on Kalam for Presidentship
Clean Media Correspondent
New Delhi, June 14 (CMC) The Trinamool Congress stood firm that it will not accept finance minister Pranab Mukherjee as President and rejected the Congress' criticism that party chief Mamata Banerjee had acted "unethically" on Thursday.
Banerjee will not attend the meeting of UPA leaders in Delhi on Friday and will
support APJ Abdul Kalam for President. Trinamool leaders rejected allegations that Banerjee had "broken decorum" when she announced in Delhi that Mukherjee and vice president Hamid Ansari were the Congress's choice for the President's post.
Trinamool Congress leaders claimed Banerjee announced their names after taking Congress president Sonia Gandhi's consent during their meeting.
The Congress on Thursday said it cannot spare Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for the President's post. It also rejected former president Kalam and former speaker Somnath Chatterjee proposed by the Trinamool and the Samajwadi Party.
"When Mamata met her (Sonia Gandhi), the Congress chief told her that these two names have come up for presidential elections. When two names have come up, this does not mean that Congress has decided on one name," Congress leader Janardhan Dwivedi told reporters.
Dwivedi said that such talks happen indoors and should not be talked in public.
"None of other allies have spoken about names in public. Had the Congress decided the name, then there would have been one name not two..."
This is the real politics, what Mamata has learnt from congress over the years!
ReplyDeletei want that frm heart kalam must win ....he must only become president......becoz he is candidate who do something not boasts anything.......
ReplyDeletent in every feild but atleast in education..