Murmu files nomination for presidential polls
   Date :25-Jun-2022

Murmu files nomination 
 
 
 
Delhi Bureau
NEW DELHI, 
RULING BJP-led NDA alliance’s nominee for presidential polls, Draupadi Murmu filed her nomination papers to the Returning Officer and Rajya Sabha Secretary General Pramod Chandra Modi at his office in the Parliament on Friday.
Murmu was accompanied by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other top BJP leaders and the leaders from the NDA allies at the time of handing of papers to the RO.
Murmu also called on senior leaders from Opposition parties including Congress President Sonia Gandhi, NCP chief Sharad Pawar, TMC chief Mamata Bannerjee and other seeking their support to her candidature.
Every set of nomination has to have 50 proposers and 50 seconders among elected representatives. Murmu, if elected, will be the first tribal President and the second woman in the post. She will also be the
youngest President ever, second only to N Sanjeeva Reddy, who was a few days elder to her when he became the President. After filing her nominations, Ms. Murmu spoke with Congress President Sonia Gandhi, NCP Chief Sharad Pawar, TMC chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Bannerjee seeking their support for her candidature in the presidential election. Notably, the Opposition candidate for presidential polls Mr Yashwant Sinha is expected to file his nomination papers on Monday, 27th June. Z category security cover for Yashwant Sinha: THE Centre has extended a Z category cover of armed CRPF commandos to Yashwant Sinha.
Nadda seeks Oppn leaders’ support for Draupadi Murmu’s candidature in Presidential poll: BJP President J P Nadda on Friday reached out to various Opposition leaders and sought their support for the NDA’s presidential candidate Draupadi Murmu. Sources said Nadda called up Congress leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, former Prime Minister and JDS leader H D Devegowda while seeking to build a consensus on Murmu’s candidature.
Sources add that Nadda has also called NC leader and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah and some other Opposition leaders.
Murmu herself had earlier called senior Opposition leaders including Sonia Gandhi, Sharad Pawar and Mamata Banerjee and sought their support for her candidature for the top constitutional post in the country.
Murmu, if elected, would be the first tribal and the second woman to occupy the post of President of India