JD(U) snubs BJP for unilaterally announcing its stand on Prez election

May 1, 2012

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New Delhi, May 1: Indicating fissures in the NDA over the issue of Presidential election, the JD-U today snubbed the BJP for unilaterally announcing its stand on the issue.

"Whatever Sushma Swaraj has said is the opinion of the BJP. This is not our party's view. The issue was not discussed in any NDA meeting. BJP has not discussed the issue with us," JD-U President Sharad Yadav told reporters here.

He also said that the country is in a bad shape and "everybody needs to be on the side of caution on this issue".

He was reacting to Swaraj's statement yesterday that BJP will not support the candidature of Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Vice President Hamid Ansari or any candidate put up by the Congress for the Presidential election.

Asked whether JD-U agrees with the stand of Swaraj, Yadav merely said, "Ours is a different party and their's is another. Neither have we discussed this issue with the BJP nor have they done it with us so far."

Yadav, who is also the NDA convener, also referred to the statement of SAD leader Sukhbir Singh Badal to hammer home his point that the issue has not been decided by NDA as yet.

Badal said that there has been "no formal meeting" of the alliance so far and hence he cannot comment that who will be NDA's Presidential candidate.

"This will be the decision of the collective leadership. I am just a member of the alliance", was his refrain when asked whether they support the candidature of former President Abdul Kalam.

Swaraj had said that the party was open to the idea of backing former President A P J Abdul Kalam if parties like Samajwadi Party mooted his name.

Yadav said the NDA has not yet discussed any name for the Presidential candidate.

The JD(U) has not discussed any probable candidates for the Presidential elections yet, Yadav said, adding that the party will form an opinion after having internal discussions.

"Whenever such a discussion takes place, the JD(U) will express its views. But, she (Swaraj) has given the opinion of her party. She has not said this after any consultation with us. I do not know whether she consulted any other NDA ally on the issue", he said.

Sources in JD-U said that the unilateral announcement by Swaraj has foreclosed options of building a consensus on the issue.

Asked whether the NDA should have settled with a Vice President like Punjab Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal for the alliance and backed UPA's candidate for the President's job, a party leader speaking on the condition of anonymity said, "all such options have been closed by the statement".

The leader also made it clear that there was no discussion in the NDA even on supporting or putting up the name of former President Abdul Kalam as the alliance candidate this time, thereby indicating that the BJP may be proposing his name but Kalam is still not the NDA candidate.

The leader pointed out that even in 2007, when the BJP was proposing Kalam's renomination, NDA ally Shiv Sena had not supported his candidature. Sena had then backed Pratibha Patil's candidature in the name of Marathi pride.

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