Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday thanked all political parties for a very dignified campaign for the July 17 presidential election. But, the election campaign for this election was very dignified. Parliamentary Affairs Minister HN Ananth Kumar said Modi later appealed to all the members of parliament and state assemblies to vote in the President’s election. Deve Gowda from Janata Dal-Secular, Farooq Abdullah from National Conference, Mulayam Singh Yadav from Samajwadi Party, Jaiprakash Yadav of the Rashtriya Janata Dal, M. Rajamohan Reddy from YSR Congress Party and A.P. Trinamool Congress boycotted the meeting while no representative of Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal-United was seen.

Source: Hindustan Times July 16, 2017 13:52 UTC