Mamta Banerjee said, "If the BJP had told about the candidate earlier, I would have thought."

Kolkata:

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has tempered her rhetoric against the ruling BJP's presidential candidate Draupadi Murmu.

This is because Draupadi Murmu has a strong chance of winning the election.

Mamata Banerjee worked hard to nominate a joint opposition candidate for the post of President.

He also took the signatures of several parties, including the Congress, to garner support for a joint candidate.

After much research, all the parties had expressed their consent on the leader of Trinamool Congress Yashwant Sinha.

But as the presidential election is approaching, Mamta Banerjee is seeing a clear picture of the voting to be held on July 18.

Mamata Banerjee after inaugurating Rath Yatra at Kolkata's ISKCON temple, said, "If BJP had told about the candidate earlier, I must have thought… Draupadi Murmu is more likely to win in the current political scenario Especially after what happened in Maharashtra."

The ruling party itself has about 49 percent of the electorate and needs to cross the 50 percent mark to win the presidential election.

Draupadi Murmu is the former governor of Jharkhand.

She hails from Odisha and if elected, 64-year-old Murmu will be the first tribal woman to become the President of India.

Banerjee said, "We have feelings for the tribals. Had the BJP said earlier that they would nominate a tribal for the post of president, all the opposition parties could sit together and discuss it. But they gave us only our suggestions." Called to ask."

"It would have been better for the country if there was a presidential candidate in the larger interest of the public. I can't do anything alone now. It's been decided by the 17 parties that took the decision. Now the nominations have been submitted. Now nothing can be done."

The Chief Minister of Bengal said.


Draupadi Murmu was a strong contender for the post even before the 2017 presidential elections.

But on one occasion, the then Governor of Bihar, Ram Nath Kovind, who was a Dalit, was named the government's choice for the post.