Chief Minister of West Bengal before Presidential election Mamata Banerjee Said that the prospects of NDA candidate Draupadi Murmu are better in the elections.
“We now know that Draupadi Murmu’s prospects are better because of Maharashtra’s development. We will follow what the opposition parties say: The BJP did not discuss with us before announcing its candidate for the presidential election. They should have taken our suggestions… then we could have considered,” she said in an interview with ANI.
The opposition is now looking weaker than ever after the fall of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Congress-NCP-Shiv Sena government in Maharashtra, which was one of the few states where the BJP did not have a majority. This decline was followed by a rebellion within the army.
Rebel leader Eknath Shinde has formed the government with BJP in Maharashtra, with him as Chief Minister and BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis as Deputy CM.
Yashwant Sinha, the opposition candidate, is TMC’s vice-president and a staunch critic of the Modi government.
BJP’s Draupadi Murmu gets an edge when it comes to numbers, opposition parties like Jagan Mohan Reddy’s YSRCP, Naveen Patnaik’s BJD, Mayawati’s BSP and Shiromi Akali Dal have already extended their support, Times Now reports. has been described in
Similarly, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), an ally of Congress in Jharkhand, is expected to support Murmu. Earlier this month, Jharkhand Chief Minister and JMM leader Hemant Soren said that he will take a decision on the issue when he meets Union Minister Amit Shah.
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