Shock to Mamata Banerjee's efforts, Farooq is also not ready to become President
Mamta Banerjee has got a setback before the presidential election.
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Presidential Election 2022: Mamta Banerjee is encouraged by the immense success she got in the West Bengal Assembly elections held in 2021. She wants to establish her party Trinamool Congress (TMC) at the center as an alternative to the Congress (INC) party. She wants to be an alternative to the Congress against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in central politics. This is the reason why Mamta Banerjee started on the mission of uniting the opposition before the Presidential Election 2022. The meeting was held, but the name of the President could not be agreed upon.
Sharad Pawar was the first to deny
Mamta Banerjee proposed Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Sharad Pawar as the opposition's presidential candidate, but the Maratha Chhatrap refused. Mamta Banerjee also proposed the names of former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and National Conference President Farooq Abdullah and Gopalkrishna Gandhi. Now Farooq Abdullah has also refused to become the opposition's presidential candidate. However, his son Omar Abdullah had made it clear in the meeting itself that some other name should be considered.
Farooq Abdullah withdraws his name
Farooq Abdullah said that I withdraw my nomination as the joint candidate of the opposition for the post of President of India. He said that I think Jammu and Kashmir is passing through a delicate phase. At such a time, it is very important for me to be here to help the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
17 parties had attended Mamta's meeting
Representatives of 17 parties attended the meeting of opposition parties called by Mamta Banerjee in Delhi. Apart from Mamata Banerjee, NCP chief Sharad Pawar, Praful Patel, CPI-ML's Dipankar Bhattacharya, Rashtriya Janata Dal's Manoj Jha, PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti, National Conference's Farooq Abdullah, Congress's Mallikarjun Kharge, Jairam Ramesh and Randeep Singh Surjewala, SP K Akhilesh Yadav, Jayant Chaudhary from RLD, TR Balu from DMK and others had joined.
These parties stayed away from Mamta's meeting
In this important meeting of Mamta Banerjee, representatives of Delhi's ruling party Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Telangana's Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), Bahujan Samaj Party, YSR Congress stayed away from the meeting. Odisha's ruling party Biju Janata Dal also kept a distance from this meeting. No representative of Asaduddin Owaisi's party AIMIM also attended the meeting.