more-inLeaders of top Opposition parties will meet here on Wednesday to discuss option on a joint candidate for the upcoming Presidential and Vice Presidential elections. Thus far, sources said, no one from the government has been in touch on the names the ruling coalition is considering. The 10-member group set up by the Opposition that will meet for the first time after its constitution, these sources said, will also discuss the farmers’ agitations that have broken out in different parts of the country. The committee has been set up not merely for the Presidential and Vice Presidential polls, but also to promote Opposition unity. In the Opposition circles, the top name doing the rounds is that of former Bengal Governor Gopal Krishna Gandhi.

Source: The Hindu June 13, 2017 16:41 UTC