AAP To Assist Opposition Candidate Yashwant Sinha For President

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New Delhi:

The Aam Aadmi Occasion introduced right now that it'll again joint opposition candidate Yashwant Sinha within the July 18 presidential election. The announcement was made by Sanjay Singh, the Rajya Sabha MP of the Aam Aadmi Occasion.

"We now have respect for (NDA candidate) Draupadi Murmu however we are going to help Yashwant Sinhaji," he mentioned after a political advisory committee (PAC) assembly of the occasion. The AAP is the one non-BJP, non-Congress occasion having governments in two states -- Delhi and Punjab.

It has 10 Rajya Sabha MPs from the 2 states together with three from Delhi.

Additionally, the occasion has a complete 156 MLAs together with 92 in Punjab, 62 in Delhi and two in Goa.

Mr Sinha has been backed by Telangana Chief Minister Ok Chandrashekar Rao's Telangana Rashtra Samithi and his West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress within the presidential polls.

He's contesting towards Droupadi Murmu, the candidate chosen by the BJP-led Nationwide Democratic Alliance.

Voting for the Presidential ballot will happen on Monday and the counting of votes will happen on July 21.

After getting the help of some regional events like BJD, YSR Congress, Biju Janata Dal, Bahujan Samaj Occasion, Shiromani Akali Dal and Shiv Sena, the vote share of Ms Murmu has already crossed 60 per cent. It was round 50 per cent on the time of her nomination.

Ms Murmu, 64, if elected, would be the first tribal lady to turn out to be the President of India.

With inputs from PTI

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