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President poll: Pranab Mukherjee likely to file nomination on June 28

Press Trust of India | Updated Jun 19, 2012 at 09:14pm IST

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New Delhi: Pranab Mukherjee is expected to file on June 28 his nomination papers for Presidential election.

Four sets of nomination papers, each having 50 proposers and seconders, are being readied for the nomination, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal said.

Mukherjee could step down as Finance Minister after his nomination.

Pranab likely to file nomination on June 28

Four sets of nomination papers, each having 50 proposers and seconders, are being readied for the nomination, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal said.

Besides Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, several Union ministers as also leaders of constituent parties of UPA are expected to be the proposers and seconders of Mukherjee's candidature for the July 19 election.

As part of preparations, MPs of constituent parties of UPA and supporting parties have been asked by Mukherjee's election campaign managers to sign the nomination papers kept in Parliament House.

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