bjp: Presidential poll: Droupadi Murmu meets BJP lawmakers from Bengal, assured of support

NDA presidential nominee Droupadi Murmu met BJP lawmakers from West Bengal on Tuesday to hunt their help for the July 18 election. BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar and Suvendu Adhikari, the chief of the opposition within the West Bengal meeting, together with central leaders of the social gathering have been current on the hour-long assembly held at a resort.

In line with sources of the state BJP unit, the social gathering lawmakers assured her of the help within the ballot.

Murmu is visiting varied states to garner help from lawmakers.

Earlier within the day, she visited the ancestral home of Swami Vivekananda in north Kolkata.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had not too long ago stated that Murmu, a tribal BJP chief from Odisha, might have been a consensus candidate had the saffron camp mentioned with the opposition events earlier than fielding her.

Main non-BJP events of the nation, together with the Congress and the TMC, have named former union minister Yashwant Sinha because the joint nominee for the presidential election.

The BJP presently has 17 Lok Sabha MPs from West Bengal. Of them, Arjun Singh has converted to the TMC however is but to resign as a parliamentarian.

Within the 294-member West Bengal meeting, the saffron camp has 75 MLAs. Nevertheless, 5 of them have joined the TMC with out resigning as legislators.