A family borough of civil servant-turned-politician Yashwant Sinha, this is the first time since 1998 that nobody from the Sinha family has contested the election.
Vajpayee must be dismayed looking at Modi govt from heaven, says former Union minister Sinha, questions functioning of EC & ED and govt's claims about India's economy.
While Yashwant Sinha is supporting Congress's JP Patel, Jayant is rooting for BJP candidate Manish Jaiswal. Their future may depend on which way the elections go.
Murmu, the NDA candidate, got 2824 votes, compared to opposition candidate Yashwant Sinha's 1877. She will be sworn in on 25 July, a day after President Ram Nath Kovind's term ends.
The Opposition presidential nominee added that his candidature was not ‘symbolic’ and that politics around NDA pick Droupadi Murmu’s tribal identity would ‘not cut ice’.
BJP under PM Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah is following 'undemocratic & dangerous' path, says former Union minister, who is confident all non-BJP parties will vote for him.
Sinha was announced Tuesday as opposition's pick for presidential polls. IAS-officer-turned politician, who was finance minister in Vajpayee govt, left BJP in 2018 and joined TMC last year.
Many Opposition parties met in Delhi Tuesday to pick its candidate after previous choices Sharad Pawar, Farooq Abdullah and Gopalkrishna Gandhi declined.
Repeated changes in cotton import duty have prioritised textile competitiveness when mills face high input costs. But policy can also put pressure on farmgate prices.
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