Mamata On Kalam

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  Plan B, If We Don't Agree With Centre On Next President: Mamata Banerjee

  The opposition parties will field a candidate in the Presidential election if the nominee suggested by the government is not acceptable to them, West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee said on Friday.

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  Abdul Kalam Drafted 2 Contrasting Speeches On '12 Prez Poll Decision

  APJ Abdul Kalam took quite some time to make up his mind on whether to contest the presidential elections in 2012 despite the numbers stacked oddly against him as he greatly wished to fight corruption at the grass roots and had drafted two contrasting speeches to justify his decision, says his aide.

• Mamata Banerjee and Dr APJ Abdul Kalam exchange letters of mutual admiration

  Mamata Banerjee may not have been able to persuade former President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam to run for another term, but she gave it her best shot. Her aggressive efforts on Facebook, and offline in the social network of coalition politics, have won her rich praise from the nuclear scientist. In a letter to her, Dr Kalam thanks her for her "graceful pol...

• Mamata ministers 'ready to resign if forced': 10 developments

  Mamata Banerjee is holding a meeting in Kolkata of her MPs and MLAs which could decide if she's divorcing the ruling coalition at the centre, the UPA.

• Mamata Banerjee's Facebook campaign for Dr APJ Abdul Kalam: Top 5 posts

  West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is campaigning furiously on Facebook for a new term for Dr APJ Kalam for President of India. Ms Banerjee has rejected Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who is the candidate of the UPA, the coalition that she participates in with considerable friction. On Saturday, Ms Banerjee launched a Facebook page in s...

• Mamata calls Jayalalithaa for support to Kalam; she says back Sangma instead

  An isolated Mamata Banerjee is trying all that she can to garner support for APJ Abdul Kalam as President. The Trinamool Congress chief, on Sunday night, called up AIADMK boss and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, asking her to back Dr Kalam for the country's top job. Ms Jayalalithaa, however, asked Ms Banerjee to support former Lok Sabha s...

• Mamata Banerjee says 'thank you' for 'overwhelming' response to Facebook appeal for APJ Abdul Kalam

  Appreciating an 'overwhelming' response to her Facebook appeal for supporting former President APJ Abdul Kalam in the Presidential election, Mamata Banerjee today in another post expressed her thanks.

• Trinamool calls Mulayam a 'traitor'

  Terming Samajwadi Party (SP) supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav a "traitor" after his party's about-turn in extending support to union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee's candidature for president, the Trinamool Congress leadership on Friday said they are still hopeful about having a consensus on A.P.J. Abdul Kalam as the next president of India.

• Pranab Mukherjee is UPA candidate for India's next President

  Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will run for President as the ruling UPA’s candidate. Sonia Gandhi, UPA president, ratified Pranab's name at a meeting of the Congress’s allies at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s 7 Race Course Road residence today. Mr Mukherjee is expected to resign as Finance Minister on June 24, after the Prime Minister re...

• APJ Abdul Kalam will contest, says Mamata Banerjee, but he is undecided, so is NDA

  APJ Abdul Kalam, who was hosted at lunch by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today, has said he will decide at the right time whether to contest Presidential elections for a second stint in the Rashtrapati Bhawan. And though Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee insists that he will contest, a lot of factors now seem to put a question mark on t...

• President Pranab Mukherjee? UPA meets now, is Mulayam Singh Yadav on board?

  President of India: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, according to sources, will run for President. He is expected to file his nomination papers on June 25, if he is ratified as the UPA candidate at a meeting of its allies today, which has begun. He reportedly remains the first choice of his party president and UPA chairperson, Sonia Gandhi. Cong...

• Confident Mamata sends 'advance congratulations' to Kalam

  Stating that the Samajwadi Party (SP) was with her, Trinamool Congress Chief Mamata Banerjee on Friday said former president APJ Abdul Kalam would contest the presidential elections and sent "advance congratulations" to him for a second tenure in office.

• Nitish Kumar to meet Abdul Kalam for lunch today; NDA to meet on presidential poll

  Former president APJ Abdul Kalam, who is being backed by the Trinamool Congress and the Samajwadi Party for a second stint at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, will meet Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for lunch today.

• UPA meet on presidential polls: Congress warns allies against Mamata-Mulayam, say sources

  With Mamata Banerjee announcing this evening, after her meeting with Mulayam Singh Yadav, that former president APJ Abdul Kalam was their first choice for the next President of India, sources say the Congress has warned all its allies that Ms Banerjee and Mr Yadav are trying to topple the government.

• President elections: Mamata Banerjee firm on Kalam, Mulayam Singh Yadav distances himself a little

  Mamata Banerjee met Mulayam Singh Yadav for the third time in 48 hours this evening and said that former president APJ Abdul Kalam is her first choice for the next President of India. "And he will win the election," she said. Ms Banerjee, who partners with the Congress at the centre and in Bengal, also dared the Congress to sack her from the UPA. ...