Kumar said she was honoured by the trust the 17 parties led by the Congress have show in her.
02 Jul 2017 12:56 PM
BJP president Amit Shah has also set up a crack team to ensure that the NDA candidate wins with a huge margin.
02 Jul 2017 7:27 AM
17 opposition parties have fielded Kumar as their joint candidate in the presidential election against NDA's nominee Ram Nath Kovind.
01 Jul 2017 6:21 PM
UPA-led by Congress has nominated Meira Kumar against Ram Nath Kovind, BJP-led NDA's candidate for the polls.
01 Jul 2017 6:03 PM
Seventeen opposition parties have extended their support to Kumar.
01 Jul 2017 4:07 AM
Launching her presidential campaign from Sabarmati Ashram in Gujarat, Meira Kumar said she wishes that people of Gujarat make progress.
30 Jun 2017 10:51 AM
Kumar will launch her campaign from the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad on June 30th.
29 Jun 2017 6:18 AM
The assurance of support was given to Ram Nath Kovind during a joint meeting with the MLAs of the PDP, the BJP and the Peoples Conference.
28 Jun 2017 8:03 PM
Congress president Sonia Gandhi said the Opposition was determined to fight the poll.
28 Jun 2017 2:17 PM
Rift is being speculated in the grand alliance after Lalu said that Nitish Kumar made a mistake by extending support to Kovind.
28 Jun 2017 1:15 PM
Sonia Gandhi and other top Congress and opposition leaders were amongst those who proposed and seconded her nomination.
28 Jun 2017 12:47 PM
The RJD had alleged Mr Kumar of making a “historic blunder” by supporting Mr Kovind, while the Congress accused him of “political opportunism.”
28 Jun 2017 1:16 AM
Kumar added that in earlier presidential elections, caste was never an issue but it was only the merit of the respective candidate that was in play.
28 Jun 2017 1:02 AM
Meira Kumar will file her nominations in the presence of Congress president Sonia Gandhi and a number of opposition leaders.
27 Jun 2017 9:10 PM
Meira Kumar said she would launch her poll campaign from Sabarmati Ashram in Gujarat.
27 Jun 2017 2:32 PM
'This is the last word on construction of a grand Ram temple in Ayodhya and no power on earth can stop it,' he said.
26 Jun 2017 9:29 PM
Swaraj also tweeted a link to a newspaper report that said “Speaker interrupted Sushma 60 times in 6-minute speech”.
26 Jun 2017 2:05 AM
The electoral college for the presidential elections constitutes MPs of both Houses of Parliament and MLAs of State Assemblies.
26 Jun 2017 1:18 AM
Swaraj was seen questioning the neutrality of Kumar, pitted against BJP-led NDA candidate Ram Nath Kovind for the presidential contest.
25 Jun 2017 7:19 PM
This, political observers feel, is likely to pave the way for other like-minded parties to join hands ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
25 Jun 2017 11:31 AM