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Telangana Chief Minister Opts Out of Mamata Invite

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Citing strong opposition to inviting the congress, Telangana Rashtra Samithi will not attend today’s meeting.

New Delhi: Mamata Banerjee’s meeting inviting top opposition from across the country to discuss the Presidential candidate, to be held today will not feature Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao.

The meeting organised by TMC Head and West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee to be held today in New Delhi has reportedly invited 22 political parties to strategize a unified stand against the BJP and its allies ahead of the Presidential elections to be held on the 18th next-month.

“There is no question of sharing any platform with the Congress,” said the TRS in a statement.

The invites issued earlier this week will discuss joint plans and potential cross-party ally ship in an attempt to unify against the BJP.

Rao expressed the party’s opposition to congress commenting that, “Rahul Gandhi, in a recent public meeting in Telangana, had targeted the TRS government without any word of criticism against the BJP,”.

NCP leader Sharad Pawar, who has accepted the invite has allegedly reported hesitance in taking up the position as the opposition’s candidate for President, as he believes the BJP has enough support to hijack the position. Banerjee reportedly held a long discussion with Pawar early yesterday.

While the Congress and Left opposition in Bengal has accepted the invite, reports suggest that AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal and Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik of the BJD will not attend the meeting.

Among leaders who have accepted the invite for the assembly are Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) president and Chief Minister Hemant Soren, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, CPI’s Binoy Viswam, CPM’s Elamaram Kareem, Former Karnataka CM Kumaraswamy and former PM HD Deve Gowda.

The list further includes DMK’s TR Baalu, Shiv Sena’s Subhash Desai, RLD’s Jayant Chaudhary, Jammu & Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party’s Mehbooba Mufti and National Conference leader Omar Abdullah.

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Gandhi was the consensus opposition candidate for the post of vice-president of India in 2017 but had lost to M Venkaiah Naidu in the polls.

The Left parties have suggested the name of Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson, Gopal Krishna Gandhi, for the upcoming Presidential polls. He has sought time to think over the matter. According to Sources the Left parties, in their meeting with NCP supremo Sharad Pawar, who himself is speculated to be one of the candidates for the highest post in the country,on Tuesday, suggested the name of the former West Bengal governor. Pawar wasn’t averse to the suggestion. His name is likely to be proposed at today’s meeting.

In an interaction with  India Today, Gopalakrishna Gandhi said, “I have been asked if I would consider being such a candidate if a consensus builds around my name. I have said I need some time to think about this important suggestion.” “Consultations among all concerned are underway. It would be premature to say more at this juncture,” he concluded.

Gandhi was the consensus opposition candidate for the post of vice-president of India in 2017 but had lost to M Venkaiah Naidu in the polls.

The 77-year-old former bureaucrat has also served as India’s High Commissioner to South Africa and Sri Lanka. He is the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and C Rajagopalachari.

Meanwhile, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has convened a meeting of various opposition parties to deliberate on the opposition’s choice of the presidential nominee.

The list of leaders attending the meeting includes the name of Congress
President Sonia Gandhi is currently in quarantine after she was tested
positive for covid-19 last week.
chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan, against whom the Kerala congress unit
has been protesting heavily for a few days Regarding the Gold
smuggling case is also on the list.

Naveen Patnaik (Chief Minister, Odisha), MK Stalin(Chief Minister, Tamil Nadu), Uddhav Thackeray (Chief Minister,Maharastra),  Hemant Soren (Chief Minister, Jharkhand), Bhagwant
Singh Mann (Chief Minister, Punjab), Lalu Prasad Yadav (President,
RJD), D. Raja (General Secretary, CPI), Sitaram Yechury (General
Secretary, CPIM), Akhilesh Yadav (President, Samajwadi Party)forwhom Mamta had campaigned during the UP assembly elections heldearlier this year.
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Mufti (President, PDP), S. Sukhbir Singh Badal (President, Shiromani AkaliDal),  Pawan Chamling (President, Sikkim Democratic Front),  K. M. Kader
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