Shimla sources have reported that the opposition's presidential nominee, Meira Kumar, on Monday met the Congress MPs and MLAs from Himachal Pradesh and urged them to use their "conscience" while voting in the 17 July election to the country's top constitutional post. Meira Kumar said "Earlier the members had exercised their conscience during the presidential contest between Neelam Sanjiva Reddy and VV Giri".
Sources have stated that the former Lok Sabha speaker, who was accompanied by senior Congress leaders including Salman Khurshid, Ambika Soni and Anand Sharma, claimed that she had the support of 17 parties in the presidential election.
Meanwhile the five times Lok Sabha MP told India
has been a perfect example of unity in diversity as the people of the country
follow various religions, ideologies, cultural ethos and values. But, this
multi-religious system is being marginalized and the people are
looking at us to raise their voice. It was stated that the presidential election is scheduled to take place on 17 July and the counting of votes will be taken up on 20 July.
