Prakash Ambedkar, the grandson of B R Ambedkar, asks Yashwant Sinha to drop out of the race for president

GG News Bureau

New Delhi, 17^th July. President of the Vanchit Bahujan Aaghadi Prakash Ambedkar urged opposition candidate Yashwant Sinha to drop out of the race just two days before the presidential elections. B R Ambedkar’s grandson is Prakash Ambedkar.

Ambedkar advised Sinha to drop out of the race because so many MPs and MLAs from scheduled castes and scheduled tribes have endorsed Draupadi Murmu from all parties. He tweeted that “many Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe members from across the parties are joining to vote in favour of Madam Draupadi Murmu,” and that he should withdraw from the presidential race.

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On July 18, members of the parliament and state assemblies will cast ballots in the election for the position of president. On July 24, Ram Nath Kovind’s term as president will come to an end.

The news that Prakash Ambedkar is pleading with Yashwant Sinha comes as a shock to the opposition candidate, who had to postpone his campaign trip to Mumbai after the Uddhav Thackeray faction of the Shiv Sena declared support for Draupadi Murmu. While Congress and the NCP are supporting Sinha, their Shiv Sena ally Uddhav Thackeray has stated that his faction will vote for Murmu because she is the first Scheduled Tribe woman to be nominated for president and because many Shiv Sena activists have urged them to do so.

Aam Aadmi Party today declared that it supports Yashwant Sinha. The party declared that, while they respected Draupadi Murmu, they would support Sinha in the election. Congress, NCP, TMC, SP, National Conference, CPI, CPI-M, AIMIM, RJD, and AIUDG are just a few of the organizations that have already endorsed him. But Draupadi Murmu is likely to prevail because she has more supporters.

She will receive support from a number of other parties in addition to the NDA parties. Several non-NDA parties, including the BJD, YSR-CP, BSP, AIADMK, TDP, JDS, and Shiromani Akali Dal, have already endorsed the NDA candidate, ensuring that she will receive more than 60% of the vote.

Along with these endorsements, cross-voting from other non-NDA parties is also anticipated, particularly from lawmakers from the SC and ST.