Droupadi Murmu

BJP-led NDA Presidential candidate, Droupadi Murmu will be arriving Nagaland on Wednesday accompanied by union minister for Ports, Shipping, waterways and AYUSH, Sarbananda Sonowal, to seek support for her election scheduled to be held on July 18.According to officials,...

Urging his rival, BJP-led NDA’s candidate for presidential polls, Droupadi Murmu to make an affirmation that she will not be a “rubber stamp Rashtrapati”, Yashwant Sinha, the joint candidate of opposition parties on Sunday expressed concerns about accusations being...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday said opposition parties might have considered backing NDA’s presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu, a tribal leader of the saffron party from Odisha, had the BJP held a discussion with them before fielding...

Yashwant Sinha, the candidate of joint Opposition nominee in the presidential election, on Wednesday said a “thinking and speaking” person should be the resident of Rashtrapati Bhavan and not a rubber stamp.Criticising the presentation of nomination papers of NDA...

As many as 115 nominations were filed till Wednesday, the last day of filing of papers for the July 18 presidential election, and 87 of them remain for scrutiny, the Rajya Sabha Secretariat said.The scrutiny of the nominations would...

Former union minister Yashwant Sinha filed his nomination on Monday as the common opposition candidate against NDA nominee Droupadi Murmu for the July 18 presidential election, a contest described by his supporters as a “battle of ideologies”.The 84-year-old, accompanied...

A slum dweller from Mumbai, a namesake of RJD founder Lalu Prasad Yadav, a social activist from Tamil Nadu and a professor from Delhi are among those who have submitted their nomination papers to contest the July 18 presidential...

The BJP-led NDA’s nominee Droupadi Murmu on Friday filed her nomination papers for the July 18 presidential election, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi handing over the set of papers to Returning Officer P C Mody.Murmu was also accompanied by...

Opposition’s presidential candidate Yashwant Sinha asserted on Thursday that as a former Union minister he has done “much more” than his NDA rival Droupadi Murmu for Scheduled Tribes and other disadvantaged communities and questioned her record for their welfare...

NDA’s pick for president Droupadi Murmu met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Minister Amit Shah on Thursday, a day of hectic activity for the tribal leader who flew in from Bhubaneswar in the morning ahead of filing her...