Presidential polls: Yashwant Sinha to be joint opposition candidate

NEW DELHI: The opposition parties on Tuesday announced that they have unanimously decided to field former Union minister Yashwant Sinha as their common candidate for the upcoming Presidential elections.
The opposition parties, in a joint statement, appealed to BJP, its allies to support Yashwant Sinha as President so that the country can have a worthy 'rashtrapati' elected unopposed.
Congress leader Jairam Ramesh, while reading out the joint opposition statement, said that the Modi government made no serious effort to have consensus on Presidential candidate.
"The initiative for this should have been made by the government but it made no serious effort to arrive at a consensus candidate," the statement said.