New Delhi: As Trinamool Congress stunned Congress over Presidential poll, NCP leader Sharad Pawar on Thursday met Sonia Gandhi and assured her of support to any candidate that UPA puts forth.
"I told her (Gandhi) that whoever UPA nominates, we will support," Pawar said after his 30-minute meeting with the Congress chief to discuss Presidential election.
Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee stunned Congress on Wednesday by disclosing the names under UPA's consideration - Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Vice-President Hamid Ansari.
She then teamed up with Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav to float the names of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, former President APJ Abdul Kalam and former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee.
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He was first elected as a member of Lok Sabha in 1984 but he resigned in March 1985. Pawar was re-elected as a member of Lok Sabha in 1991, 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2004. He entered the Maharashtra legislative assembly for the first time in 1967 f ...
Sonia Gandhi (Hindi: सोनिया गांधी; born Edvige Antonia Albina Maino on December 9, 1946) is the President of Indian National Congress, one of the major political parties of India. She is Italian-born daughter-in-law of th ...
Mamata Banerjee is the 11th and current Chief Minister of West Bengal. She is the first woman to hold the office. Banerjee founded All India Trinamool Congress in 1997 and became chairperson, after separating from the Indian National Congress. ...
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