Next President of India: Poll notification released
Meanwhile, the 10-member core committee of 17 Opposition parties will hold a meeting here on Wednesday
The formal notification on nominations for the Presidential elections 2017 is out. The nomination process would begin once the NDA and UPA decide on the candidate who would be the next President of India.
The notification for the Presidential elections has been released by the Election Commission of India. This comes in the wake of both the ruling and Opposition camps starting their deliberations on the preparations for elections.
While the Opposition parties feel that the BJP has failed to reach out to them despite the electoral process being on, the BJP said it will soon hold discussions with other parties on the possibilities of arriving at a broad consensus.
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Union
Minister
Venkaiah
Naidu,
who
is
a
member
of
the
BJP's
panel
to
hold
discussions
with
other
parties,
said
the
internal
discussions
within
the
party
are
on.
He
said
that
views
on
the
subject
were
exchanged
with
Home
Minister
Rajnath
Singh.
Once
Finance
Minister
Arun
Jaitley
is
back,
we
will
discuss
and
take
the
matter
forward,
Naidu
also
said.
He
added
that
the
exercise
will
be
done
in
the
"true
spirit
of
democracy",
and
appealed
to
all
that
they
should
go
by
the
mandate
of
the
people,
which
is
for
this
government.
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Meanwhile, the 10-member core committee of 17 Opposition parties will hold a meeting here on Wednesday. CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury, who is also a member of the 10-member panel, said the opinion of the Left is that the Opposition should put up a candidate.
Next President of India: Election schedule:
- Date of notification: June 14 2017
- Last date for nominations: June 28
- Scrutiny of nominations: June 29
- Last date for withdrawal of nominations: July 1
- Election date: July 17 between 10 am and 5 pm
- Counting of votes: July 20
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