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BJP rules out backing Pranab, Ansari in Presidential race

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : Jan 20 2013 | 3:24 AM IST

"We will not accept any Congress candidate, including Pranab Mukherjee, for the President's post, ," she told reporters here.

The names of Mukherjee and Ansari have been doing the round as being among the probables in the Presidential election.

Asked about Ansari, Swaraj said he does not have the stature to be President and hence BJP will not support him.

She also categorically said there will be no understanding with the Congress under which NDA would support UPA's Presidential candidate and get their support in return for the vice-president's post.

"We are looking at the 2014 elections and do not want to give the impression that we have any truck with the Congress," Swaraj said.

She said BJP was gauging the mood of the UPA allies on the Presidential elections.

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On whether a non-Congress candidate like A P J Abdul Kalam, Swaraj said BJP is open to the idea.

"We can have an understanding with non-Congress parties where we support their Presidential candidate and they support our vice-presidential candidate," she said.

"We will contest to win. We will work out an arithmetic," she said. (MORE) PTI RC

  

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First Published: Apr 30 2012 | 6:15 PM IST

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