{"id":86470,"date":"2017-05-26T21:29:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T15:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=86470"},"modified":"2017-05-26T21:29:47","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T15:59:47","slug":"opposition-for-a-consensus-candidate-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/opposition-for-a-consensus-candidate-for-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition for a consensus candidate for President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Opposition parties said they will prefer a consensus candidate for the presidential polls if the government fields a \u201cgood, secular candidate, familiar with the Constitution\u201d said West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee after a meeting with Congress chief Sonia Gandhi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">CPI\u2019s D Raja said the opposition had decided that there will be \u201cno compromise on the credentials of secularism, democratic values and understanding of Constitution\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-86471 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/425830-jnu-pti-left.jpg\" alt=\"Opposition for a consensus candidate for President \" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/425830-jnu-pti-left.jpg 640w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/425830-jnu-pti-left-500x280.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The opposition, said the Trinamool Congress chief, has decided to wait for the Narendra Modi government to announce its candidate. If the government\u2019s candidate doesn\u2019t meet the requirements, the parties will form a panel to select their own.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gandhi is chairing a meeting of opposition leaders to discuss strategy for the upcoming Presidential elections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-86472 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/http-2F2Fo.aolcdn.com2Fhss2Fstorage2Fmidas2F263ed40ddf0f78492fe2e75cb0c7e4762F2045556292FRTR3PGQA-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Opposition for a consensus candidate for President \" width=\"630\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The meeting, being held at Parliament, is still on. Sources said the government\u2019s demonetisation move, caste clashes in Uttar Pradesh\u2019s Saharanpur and Kashmir were also discussed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-86473 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/57444-gdofpidelf-1493916547.jpg\" alt=\"Opposition for a consensus candidate for President \" width=\"837\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/57444-gdofpidelf-1493916547.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/57444-gdofpidelf-1493916547-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 837px) 100vw, 837px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">BSP chief Mayawati said the government\u2019s performance in three years was also on the agenda. \u201cUnder the Modi rule, the poor, dalit, tribal, minorities and farmers are suffering,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">RJD chief Lalu Prasad said the government\u2019s only \u201cachievement\u201d is that \u201cfor the first time, the Pakistan flag is fluttering in Kashmir.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition parties said they will prefer a consensus candidate for the presidential polls if the government fields a \u201cgood, secular candidate, familiar with the Constitution\u201d said West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee after a meeting with Congress chief Sonia Gandhi. CPI\u2019s D Raja said the opposition had decided that there will be \u201cno compromise on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[44504,3125,17650,10828,44505,13778,6739,9443,17930,4251,94,125,40,5292,44459,17,16490,4322,16391],"class_list":["post-86470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-bsp-chief","tag-cm","tag-congress-chief","tag-cpi","tag-d-raja","tag-farmers","tag-kashmir","tag-lalu-prasad","tag-mamata-banerjee","tag-mayawati","tag-narendra-modi","tag-pakistan","tag-parliament","tag-rjd-chief","tag-saharanpur","tag-sonia-gandhi","tag-trinamool-congress","tag-uttar-pradesh","tag-west-bengal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/14-soniaaaalinace.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}