Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav, who backed United Progressive Alliance Presidential nominee Pranab Mukherjee, on Thursday mistakenly cast his vote in favour of BJP-backed P A Sangma, but realised it in time and took remedial steps.
In a complete U-turn and ending a month-long suspense, Trinamool Congress announced its decision to vote for United Progressive Alliance's presidential candidate Pranab Mukherjee 'in the interest of coalition'.
United Progressive Alliance Presidential candidate Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday said he has been making appeals to Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee every day asking her to vote for him.
UPA presidential nominee Pranab Mukherjee on said a large number of non-UPA parties have extended support to him and this reflects a broad consensus on his candidature for the top Constitutional post.
United Progressive Alliance Presidential nominee Pranab Mukherjee on Monday said he will talk to Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee to seek support for his candidature when she is ready to talk to him.
The road to Raisina Hills appears to be smooth for United Progressive Alliance Presidential candidate Pranab Mukherjee with the veteran Congress leader assured of support from parties, which have a vote value of at least 6.29 lakh, much above the requisite figure.
Amid the growing strain between the Congress Party and its ally the Trinamool Congress over the choice of Pranab Mukherjee as the United Progressive Alliance's presidential candidate, the latter has said it would quit the ruling alliance only if asked to do so.
Pratibha kicked off her campaign in Bihar soon after her arrival in Patna on Tuesday. "She received a warm response from the legislators and MPs," Congress leader Azim Bari told rediff.com in Patna.
The President's election is hitting the headlines because all the parties believe that in the 2009 general election no single party will get a majority. In such a scenario the President's role becomes crucial
Left party leaders hoped that a decision will be taken by Friday.
"We will decide our stand after (the presidential poll on) July 19," party spokesman and Member of Parliament Sanjay Raut told PTI in the backdrop of the strain in the Sena's ties with the BJP following its decision to back Pratibha.
The Bihar CM may be in the Opposition but his endorsement of Ram Nath Kovind, the NDA's presidential candidate, is among the many recent decisions that puts him apart from the others.
"I will miss his tantrums" is what Congress president Sonia Gandhi said while bidding farewell to Pranab Mukherjee from the Congress Working Committee at a meeting which formally approved his name as the United Progressive Alliance's presidential nominee in June 2012.
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