Hitting back at oppn candidate for polls Yashwant Sinha for his "rubber stamp" comments, BJP General Secretary said a feeling that an Adivasi woman is not capable itself depicts one's "nasty mindset"
From India's third-largest tribal community, the Santhal, Murmu was the recipient of training from the BJP-run Vanvasi Seva Ashram system in Odisha
BJP-led NDA's candidate for presidential polls, Droupadi Murmu was asked to make an affirmation that she will not be a "rubber stamp Rashtrapati" by Yashwant Sinha , her political opponent
The polling for the Presidential election will take place on July 18 from 10 am to 5 pm in Room Number 63 of the Parliament House
The candidature of Yashwant Sinha for the Presidential poll has more or less united the opposition but the balance is tilting towards NDA candidate Draupadi Murmu
Sinha, who visited Hyderabad as part of his poll campaign, was accorded a grand welcome at the Begumpet airport here by TRS president and Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao.
Launching an attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he said the PM never believed in "consensus" but only "confrontation."
Banerjee also admitted that Draupadi Murmu has a better chance of winning than Yashwant Sinha, the unanimous opposition candidate.
A nomination for the presidential poll will be rejected if it is not backed by 50 proposers and 50 seconders from the electoral college made up of members of Parliament and legislative assemblies
Yashwant Sinha, the candidate in the presidential election, on Wednesday said a "thinking and speaking" person should be the resident of Rashtrapati Bhavan and not a rubber stamp.
Opposition parties have formed an 11-member campaign committee to steer the nationwide campaign of their presidential poll candidate Yashwant Sinha
A total of 56 candidates, including NDA's Droupadi Murmu and opposition's Yashwant Sinha, have filed their nominations for the upcoming presidential election till Monday evening, a data revealed
Yashwant Sinha, the common opposition candidate for the presidential election, on Monday said he would reach out to his former colleagues in the BJP seeking their support.
Leaders of several opposition parties said the presidential election is a fight between two ideologies and not about individuals as their candidate Yashwant Sinha filed his nomination for the poll
Opposition's presidential candidate Yashwant Sinha on Monday filed his nomination papers for the July 18 election.
The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) has decided to extend its support to the joint Opposition's candidate Yashwant Sinha in the upcoming Presidential polls
Yashwant Sinha was chosen as the consensus candidate for presidential polls from the Joint Opposition in a meeting on June 21
Zubair was arrested under sections 153/295 IPC
Sinha will address a press conference on Monday at 4 p.m. and will then begin his campaign
'BJP's projection of Murmu is nothing more than political symbolism'