Opposition parties held a meeting on Thursday evening for the presidential election to be held in India on July 17. The meeting was chaired by Congress President Sonia Gandhi.

According to media reports, in the presence of leaders of different parties, it was decided that former Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar will be made the Presidential candidate. Meira Kumar, who won the Sasaram of Bihar, has been the President of the 15th Lok Sabha. Meira will be in front of NDA candidate Ramnath Kovind, who has spoken of supporting several opposition parties.

A day back, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal (United) had decided to support the National Democratic Alliance candidate Ramnath Kovind. Kharge said, reacting to Janata Dal (United)'s decision to support the National Democratic Alliance candidate Ramnath Kovind, "Nitish Kumar's party Janta Dal (United) has announced to support Kovind, it is his decision."

He said, "Earlier in the meeting of the opposition parties, Janata Dal (United) leader Sharad Yadav had advised the presidential candidate not to make hasty decisions."

Sharad Yadav is also a member of the sub-committee formed by opposition parties to decide on the presidential candidate.

Sonia Gandhi had taken the initiative to discuss with opposition parties to build consensus on a presidential candidate. In this context, Nitish Kumar was also among those who met Sonia Gandhi and his party leaders took part in all the meetings of the group. Left parties are in favour of ousting candidates against Kovind. They call it 'ideological conflict'.

Since his declaration of name as the NDA candidate for the presidential post, Kovind is meeting several top BJP leaders. He has also been the General Secretary of the party. On Wednesday, he met senior BJP leader LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi. Kovind is going to file nominations on Friday. It is expected that after this, he can also approach opposition parties for support in his favour.

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