New Delhi: As the voting for the presidential elections concluded, the BJP is confident that NDA nominee Ram Nath Kovind would win easily. Union law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said, “Kovindji will register a decisive victory and would turn out as an honest President, will work hard according to the Constitution. It would have been better if there was consensus. But no issues.”
Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad said, “The President should be a person pursuing an ideology under which everybody should be equal for him. And when there is a clash of ideologies, I think our candidate Ms Meira Kumar is the best.”
BSP supremo and Rajya Sabha MP Mayawati expressed satisfaction that because of her party’s insistence, the Opposition also had to pick a dalit as its candidate. “Winning or losing (a poll) is a different issue. Whoever wins, the good thing is a Scheduled Caste person will be the country’s President. And I think it is a good thing for our movement,” she said. The BSP is part of the Opposition bloc supporting Ms Kumar.
CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury also exp-ected the members of the electoral college to adhere to their inner voice. Mr Yechury said, “Hope the electoral college picks the custodian of India’s Constitution thoughtfully. Vote to uphold constitutional values of our republic.”
Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress leader in the Lok Sabha, also expected the MPs and MLAs to vote according to their inner voice and also urged the BJP to vote for Ms Kumar. “We believe in democracy and that’s why we are contesting. All the voters, including those from the BJP, should also vote as per their conscience,” he said.
