The Congress in Odisha on Thursday said it will not support Droupadi Murmu, “daughter of the soil” and NDA nominee in the Presidential elections, claiming that she believes in the ideology of the BJP and the RSS.
The Congress will back Yashwant Sinha, the consensus candidate of several major non-BJP parties, senior leader Narasingha Mishra said.
Chief Minister and BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday urged all members of the state Assembly to extend unanimous support to Murmu as is the "daughter of Odisha".
"We will not back her candidature as she believes in the ideology of the RSS and the BJP. The people of this ideology killed Mahatma Gandhi and the Congress would never support it," Mishra, the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader, said.
The CLP leader said that he knows Murmu in person and their equation is also good, but the party cannot support her.
The Congress has nine MLAs in the 147-member Odisha Assembly and one Lok Sabha MP in the state.
Mishra바카라 웹사이트is described as a "gimmick" Patnaik's appeal to all MLAs of Odisha to support Murmu.바카라 웹사이트
Claiming that the BJP and the BJD are like two sides of a coin, Mishra said, “If the chief minister has so much love for Odisha and Odias, why did he send a non-Odia to the Rajya Sabha? Were there no deserving Odia candidates?”
He was referring to the BJD라이브 바카라 support for BJP candidate Ashwini Vaishnav, a former Odisha cadre IAS officer, in the 2019 Rajya Sabha election. Vaishnaw, now a Union minister, worked as the district magistrate of Cuttack and Balasore during his tenure. He hailed from Rajasthan.바카라 웹사이트
The Congress MP from Koraput, Saptagiri Ulaka, told PTI that as a tribal leader, he welcomes the nomination of a tribal candidate for the Presidential election.바카라 웹사이트
"But, the tribals should be actually empowered. Any symbolic representation will not work,” Ulaka said.
Who is바카라 웹사이트Droupadi Murmu?
Droupadi Murmu is the바카라 웹사이트former governor of Jharkhand, former minister and MLA.바카라 웹사이트Born in 1958 in the Mayurbhanj district of Odisha to바카라 웹사이트the Santhal family of Biranchi Narayan Tudu,바카라 웹사이트politics ran in her family from the early days with바카라 웹사이트both her father and grandfather having served as the village바카라 웹사이트headmen under the Panchayati Raj system.바카라 웹사이트
The tribal바카라 웹사이트leader's initial바카라 웹사이트brush with politics began in 1997 after she was elected as the Councillor of Odisha's Rairangpur Nagar Panchayat in 1997. She was named the바카라 웹사이트Vice-Chairperson of Rairangpur the same year.바카라 웹사이트
Murmu has also been a two-time BJP MLA, in 2000 and 2009, from the Rairangpur seat.바카라 웹사이트In the BJP, Murmu moved through the ranks to first become the vice바카라 웹사이트president and later president of the Scheduled Tribe Morcha in Odisha. She was elected as the district president of the Mayurbhanj (West) unit of the BJP in 2010 and re-elected in 2013. She was also named a member of the BJP National Executive (ST Morcha) the same year. She held the post of district president till April 2015 when she was appointed as the Governor of Jharkhand.
Murmu's name was considered for President even in 2017 but Ram Nath Kovind made the cut at that time.바카라 웹사이트
(with PTI inputs)
