By Our Correspondent
NEW DELHI/BHUBANESWAR: Draupadi Murmu NDA’s Presidential candidate met Union Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi on Thursday.
Earlier, NDA’s presidential candidate Murmu on Thursday, met Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and thanked him for choosing her candidature for the highest post of the Country.
Murmu who left the Bhubaneswar airport early this morning, reached New Delhi where, she met PM Modi and Home Minister Shah. She will be filing her nomination on Friday for the Presidential election scheduled to be held on July 18, BJP sources said, sources said.
Meanwhile, soon after BJP National JP Nadda’s telephone call, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik , who is out of India now, deputed 2 of his Cabinet Colleagues Ministers Jagannath Saraka and Tukuni Sahu to sign nomination papers of NDA presidential nominee Droupadi Murmu.
Both Saraka and Sahu flanked by Party’s National Spokesperson and Rajya Sabha MP, Dr Sasmit Patra, have met Union Ministers Pralhad Joshi , Bhupinder Singh and BJP National general secretary Arun Singh and convey party’s support to NDA nominee and signed the nomination papers. Both Ministers will be present on Friday during the filing of papers.
‘BJP President Shri @JPNadda ji spoke to me about the filing of nomination of Smt #DraupadiMurmu ji for #PresidentElection. My cabinet colleagues Shri @saraka_fanand Smt @TukuniSahu will sign nomination papers today and attend the event tomorrow.#OdishaLeads,’ CM Naveen Patnaik tweeted.
