Presidential Polls | Opposition Leaders To Hold Meeting On Monday, Yashwant Sinha To File Nomination: Report

The Presidential elections will be held on July 18 and the counting of votes will be done on July 21.

Opposition joint candidate Yashwant Sinha

Source : ANI

New Delhi: Ahead of the Presidential elections next month, the Opposition leaders are set to hold a meeting in Parliament Annexe on Monday, a report by news agency ANI said. According to the report, the Opposition joint candidate Yashwant Sinha will also file his nomination for the election tomorrow, ANI sources said.

“Opposition leaders to hold a meeting at 11.30am tomorrow, June 27, in Parliament Annexe building for the Presidential elections,” ANI sources said.

Thanking the Opposition parties for unanimously choosing him as their presidential candidate, Sinha in a letter said, “I am overwhelmed with feeling of gratitude towards you and leaders of all the Opposition parties for choosing me unanimously as your common candidate to contest the Presidential Election, to be held on July 18, 2022. I thank you for the trust and confidence they have reposed in me. I assure you – and the people of India – that, if elected, I shall conscientiously uphold, without fear or favour, the basic values and guiding ideals of the Indian Constitution. In particular, as the Custodian of Constitution, I shall not allow the light of Democracy and secularism to be dimmed by the executive.”

Notably, last week, the former BJP leader had reached out to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, seeking their support for the July 18 elections.

While NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu and common opposition candidate Yashwant Sinha are the main contestants for the Presidential polls, at least 30 others have filed their nomination papers.

The Presidential elections will be held on July 18 and the counting of votes will be done on July 21.