BJP: Sangma for Prez to sustain anti-UPA mood
The BJP’s decision to support former Lok Sabha Speaker P.A. Sangma is to sustain the “anti-Congress, anti-UPA mood” in the country, the party’s national spokesperson Nirmala Seetharaman asserted, even as she lashed out at the Congress government at the Centre for not ensuring consensus on the Presidential candidate.
“When you talk about consensus for the post of the first citizen, it would be a matter of etiquette and political decency that you discuss with people and decide on a name,” Ms. Nirmala Seetharaman.
Speaking to reporters here on Thursday, she said though the Congress had willed otherwise, consensus would have had its rewards.
“Decision to back AIADMK-BJD nominee P.A. Sangma was after transparent and democratic consultations. It was not the case with the rival UPA camp as West Bengal chief minister and UPA constituent Mamata Banerjee had come up with the name of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, among others,” she said denying that her party was forced to support Mr Sangma.
She said the saffron party would mobilise support from several parties for Mr Sangma who himself was in touch with Ms Banerjee.
On the difference of opinion between Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar and his Gujarat counterpart Narendra Modi over NDA’s Prime Ministerial candidate for 2014 general elections, Ms Nirmala said the issue was not even debatable, as none was worried about the candidate now.
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