PM Modi and Rajnath Singh with NDA’s presidential candidate Draupadi Murmu. (image: video grab)
The NDA presidential candidate’s visit to Assam is part of his campaign for the elections. She will hold a meeting with MPs and MLAs of BJP and its allies at a hotel in Guwahati
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NDA’s presidential candidate Draupadi Murmu arrived in Guwahati late Tuesday night to seek support for the July 18 elections and met MPs and MLAs of the ruling BJP and its allies Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and United People’s Party Liberal (UPPL). Will meet , Accompanied by Union Shipping Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, Murmu arrived here from Manipur’s capital Imphal and was received at the airport by Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.
The NDA presidential candidate’s visit to Assam is part of his campaign for the elections. Party sources said she will hold a meeting with MPs and MLAs of the BJP and its allies at a hotel in Guwahati on Wednesday to seek votes.
The BJP has nine Lok Sabha MPs and four MPs in the Upper House, while the AGP and UPPL have one MP each in the Rajya Sabha. The ruling NDA currently has 78 MLAs in the 126-member Legislative Assembly, of which the BJP has 62, while its allies AGP and UPPL have nine and seven respectively.
AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal said his party would also support Murmu. The party has 15 MLAs in the state assembly apart from Ajmal as the lone MP in the Lok Sabha.
Former Union Minister Yashwant Sinha is the joint opposition candidate for the upcoming presidential election and is also scheduled to visit Assam to collect votes from the members of the parties supporting him.
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