Left meet PM to discuss Vice-Presidential candidate

New Delhi, July 20: CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat and party polit bureau member Sitaram Yechuri met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh late last evening to discuss the Vice-Presidential candidate.

Mr Yechuri told sources that the aim of the meeting was to update Dr Singh about the views of the Left parties on Vice-Presidential candidate.

Earlier, the Left parties met UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi to discuss on the canditate, for which Mr Yechuri said, they had shortlisted four names left-leaning historian Irfan Habib, Jamia Milia Islamia VC Mushirul Hasan, former Indian ambassador to the US Abid Hussain, Haryana Governor A R Kidwai and Mr Khalid Ansari.

Mr Yechuri also did not ruled out former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farukh Abdullah's name from the list of potential canditates.

UNI