Prez poll: Sangma hopes for miracle to emerge winner

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With Pranab Mukherjee having a clear edge in the Presidential poll, P.A. Sangma is now hoping for a 'miracle' to see himself emerge a winner, even as he denied being a 'tool' in the hands of those supporting him.

"Yes, miracles can and do happen in this world...it happens...I believe in miracles. You are right. I do believe in miracles," Sangma said when suggested that only a miracle could ensure victory for him as over 60 per cent of the electorates have already extended their support to Mukherjee.

Sangma said it was not right to tick him off even before the Presidential poll and claimed that God was with him.

"Politics moves very fast...This is politics. In politics anything can happen...Things will change everyday, you just watch," he told Karan Thapar in Devil's Advocate programme on CNN-IBN.

The tribal leader denied being used a 'tool' by BJP to win over other political allies or by Naveen Patnaik to woo 25 per cent tribals in Orissa. "Not at all," he said.

He, however, suggested that even media is playing as a tool in someone's hands and said, "We are all tools. You are a tool for someone. I am a tool for someone. Don't bring in these petty things."

Sangma who is supported by BJP, AIADMK and BJD said his candidature 'will do good to secularism of this nation'.

He also downplayed the 'anti-Christian' stance of both BJP and AIADMK in the past and said, "Religious problems are everywhere" and cited examples of countries like the United Kingdom and the United States where only Anglicals and non-Catholics respectively were made prime ministers.