New Delhi, 19/6:Opposition leaders will meet on Tuesday afternoon to finalise their candidate for the Presidential elections with Gopalkrishna Gandhi emerging as the only name in contention after National Conference patriarch Farooq Abdullah announced that he will not contest as several urged him to fight.
Sources said the meeting will be held at the Parliament Annexe at 2:30 pm and will be attended by senior leaders Sharad Pawar, Mallikarjun Kharge, Sitaram Yechury and D Raja among others. Seventeen parties had attended the first Opposition meeting on Presidential polls last Wednesday when they decided to field a common candidate.
After NCP supremo Sharad Pawar and later Abdullah declined to contest, sources said leaders may now look at Gandhi, who is Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson and former Governor, in the electoral battle, which the Opposition wants to make it an ideological battle of Gandhi versus Godse.
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