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| From Chenani to Chennai, Prof Maverick campaigns to 'save democracy' | | |
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Jammu, July 15: After Mumbai and Hyderabad, the Prof Maverick and his team is in Chennai to make an indelible mark in the elections of the President of India.
The United National Progressive Alliance also known as Third Front –a conglomerate of various parties which are neither aligned to Congress nor to the BJP –has made its decision public on not participating in the Presidential elections. The BJP which suffers most due to this decision is yet to make a strategy by the Panthers Party of the Bhim Singh is in Chennai to convince the Third Front against their decision.
The Panthers Party today appealed to the UNPA to reconsider its decision of abstaining from the Presidential elections, "in the greater interest of India's Parliamentary democracy."
Party chairman Bhim Singh told reporters in Chennai that the Presidential election was not a party election, but that of the nation's constitutional head and supreme commander of the armed forces, whose office was above board.
The boycott would have serious repercussions and adverse effects on Parliamentary democracy, he said.
"The post of President represents the cultural integrity of people, from Kashmir to Kanyakumari", he said, adding that when a comparison was made between NDA-backed candidate Bhairon Singh Shekhawat and UPA-Left candidate Pratibha Patil, the former was a better choice.
Since the contest was between the two, the UNPA should come forward to support the better candidate. Shekhawat had served as Vice-President for five years and had performed well, he said.
To a query on Shekhawat's RSS background, he said "the PDP, which is advocating secession of Kashmir from India and communal parties like Shiv Sena are supporting Patil" and added the merits of the two candidates should be compared.
Asserting that a majority of people in India were against Patil, he said in Jammu and Kashmir, the Congress and PDP MLAs were divided over supporting her. This could result in cross-voting in favour of Shekhawat.
"We have come to Tamil Nadu to appeal to AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa to reconsider the UNPA's decision", he said adding he would also seek the support of the MDMK, PMK, DPI and DMDK.
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