MARGARET ALVA IS OPPOSITION’S VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
New Delhi (The Quiver):After BJP-led NDA’s Vice Presidential candidate announcement, on Sunday ,Opposition parties have announced their Vice Presidential candidate. Opposition parties have selected former Union Minister and veteran Congress leader Margaret Alva as their candidate for the Vice presidential election.
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar after holding an all-party meeting with the opposition parties in New Delhi, announced the name of Margaret Alva. “17 parties are on board for this unanimous decision. Our collective thinking is Alva will file VP nomination on Tuesday,”said Sharad Pawar.
Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut, NCP’s Supriya Sule, Samajwadi Party’s (SP) Ramgopal Yadav, Communist Party of India (Marxist)’s Sitaram Yechury, Rashtriya Janata Dal’s (RJD) AD Singh, senior Congress leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Jairam Ramesh and others attended the meeting to decide on their vice presidential candidate.
“We are trying to contact Mamata Banerjee and Arvind Kejriwal. Last time they supported our joint president candidate,” Sharad Pawar news agency PTI.”We are all together in this election,” Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut said.
Taking to her official Twitter handle, Margaret Alva thanked the leaders of the opposition for nominating her as the candidate of the joint Opposition for the post of Vice President of India.
