New Delhi: With little over a month left for the Presidential elections, the BJP today took the first step to evolve a consensus on selection of candidates and other related measures by setting up a three-member panel comprising senior leaders and authorising it to hold parleys with opposition parties.
The committee comprising three Union Ministers — Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley and M Venkaiah Naidu and formed by BJP chief Amit Shah — will hold talks with leaders of various political parties and try to work out a consensus for the Presidential elections, party general secretary Arun Singh said in a statement here.
The opposition parties, including the likes of Congress, the Left and regional parties, have been trying to put the ball in the court of the BJP-led NDA dispensation to evolve a consensus on the Presidential elections.
On May 26, the Opposition parties in a luncheon meeting convened by Congress president Sonia Gandhi, sought to pitch for a “non-RSS” candidate for Presidential polls without, however, saying in as many words.
Emerging out of a meeting of 17 Opposition parties, senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad had said, “We all want a candidate who can steadfastly uphold constitutional values”.
