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  India   All India  28 Jun 2017  Prez poll: Flanked by Sonia, Manmohan Singh, Meira Kumar files papers

Prez poll: Flanked by Sonia, Manmohan Singh, Meira Kumar files papers

PTI
Published : Jun 28, 2017, 12:47 pm IST
Updated : Jun 28, 2017, 3:11 pm IST

Sonia Gandhi and other top Congress and opposition leaders were amongst those who proposed and seconded her nomination.

Opposition Presidential candidate Meira Kumar files her nomination. (Photo: ANI | Twitter)
 Opposition Presidential candidate Meira Kumar files her nomination. (Photo: ANI | Twitter)

New Delhi: Opposition presidential candidate Meira Kumar on Wednesday filed her nomination in the presence of top Congress and opposition leaders.

Kumar, who filed her papers with Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on one side and former prime minister Manmohan Singh on the other, will launch her campaign from Sabarmati Ashram in Gujarat on June 30.

Accompanying the former Lok Sabha as she filed her nomination in Parliament House were a host of opposition leaders, including NCP's Sharad Pawar and CPI-M general
secretary Sitaram Yechury.

Sonia Gandhi and other top Congress and opposition leaders were amongst those who proposed and seconded her nomination.

Read: Presidential election is battle of ideology and principles: Sonia Gandhi

The nomination papers will be scrutinised on Thursday. Kumar, who will contest against NDA's Ram Nath Kovind in the July 17 presidential elections, had said on Tuesday that it was a battle of ideologies and not a 'Dalit versus Dalit' fight as was being made out by some. 

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