United Opposition Presidential Election

The Opposition's vice presidential candidate Margaret Alva Saturday described the prevailing differences in the non-BJP camp as a "family quarrel", and asserted they are making efforts to unite for the 2024 challenge.

Sajith Premadasa, the United National Party (UNP) leader who lost to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in the presidential election, was named on Thursday as the Leader of the Opposition in the Sri Lankan Parliament.

With flags raised high and dancing on the streets, Maldives cheers for its new President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, who defeated Abdulla Yameen in the 2018 presidential election to claim the title. Ibrahim Mohamed Solih won the elections with 134,616 votes. He registered the victory with the backing of a united opposition trying to oust Abdulla Yameen....

Opposition leader Ibrahim Mohamed Solih won the Maldives' presidential election, results showed Monday, a surprise defeat for President Abdulla Yameen following a campaign observers said was rigged in the strongman's favour.

Concerned that a scramble among opposition parties to project their leaders for the pole position in next year's general election could hurt the united front, Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said the BJP's strategy was to go for a presidential form of election campaign with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the lead role and in the same breath,...

A day before Presidential elections and the beginning of the Monsoon Session of parliament, hectic meetings were held in the ruling NDA and the opposition camps. The government, which is preparing to face a united opposition - a bloc of 18 parties - on a host of issues including the landmark Goods and Services Tax, held not only a strategy session ...

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's party Janata Dal (United) on Tuesday sealed its support for Gopalkrishna Gandhi, the opposition's joint candidate for the Vice President, the second time that the party's lawmakers will support the government's candidate for presidential elections and the opposition in the vice presidential polls. But the similar...

At another lunch next week, Congress President Sonia Gandhi will make a fresh attempt to rebuild opposition unity that came under strain last month after Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's party the Janata Dal (United) decided to back the Narendra Modi government's choice for President, Ram Nath Kovind.

The election for the next President of India, if one is needed, will be held on July 17, and votes will be counted three days later. President Pranab Mukherjee's term ends on July 24.

As DMK chief M Karunanidhi turned 94 today, his birthday party served as a gathering for more than one cause. While his party marked the occasion to celebrate his sixty years of being a legislator without losing a single election, the birthday bash was also a show of unity among an otherwise fragmented opposition ahead of the Presidential election....

As DMK chief M Karunanidhi turns 94 today, his birthday party will serve as a gathering for more than one cause. While his party will mark the occasion as one to celebrate his sixty years of being a legislator without losing a single election, a host opposition parties will huddle around in what is being seen as a show of unity ahead of the Preside...

Congress president Sonia Gandhi hosted a lunch for the leaders of the opposition parties in the capital today where several arch-rivals put up a united face. On the menu was the upcoming Presidential election. Leaders of 16 parties discussed the possibility of fielding a joint candidate for President to take on the BJP-led National Democratic Allia...

Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, whose offer to run for President was recently rejected by veteran politician Sharad Pawar, got a dose of feel-good from someone who has never let her down. Bihar's Lalu Yadav has assured her that he will without question back any candidate that she picks to be a united Opposition's candidate for the presidential electio...

Sharad Pawar has cancelled himself from the opposition's list of potential candidates for the presidential elections, turning down a request from Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, his Nationalist Congress Party said.

A united Opposition candidate for the presidential elections will be the beginning of unity among the non-BJP parties to take on the BJP, senior JD(U) leader Sharad Yadav, seen as one of the probable Opposition choices, said today. Having met Congress chief Sonia Gandhi last week as part of efforts to put up a joint Opposition candidate for the hig...

The Opposition's vice presidential candidate Margaret Alva Saturday described the prevailing differences in the non-BJP camp as a "family quarrel", and asserted they are making efforts to unite for the 2024 challenge.

Sajith Premadasa, the United National Party (UNP) leader who lost to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in the presidential election, was named on Thursday as the Leader of the Opposition in the Sri Lankan Parliament.

With flags raised high and dancing on the streets, Maldives cheers for its new President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, who defeated Abdulla Yameen in the 2018 presidential election to claim the title. Ibrahim Mohamed Solih won the elections with 134,616 votes. He registered the victory with the backing of a united opposition trying to oust Abdulla Yameen....

Opposition leader Ibrahim Mohamed Solih won the Maldives' presidential election, results showed Monday, a surprise defeat for President Abdulla Yameen following a campaign observers said was rigged in the strongman's favour.

Concerned that a scramble among opposition parties to project their leaders for the pole position in next year's general election could hurt the united front, Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said the BJP's strategy was to go for a presidential form of election campaign with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the lead role and in the same breath,...

A day before Presidential elections and the beginning of the Monsoon Session of parliament, hectic meetings were held in the ruling NDA and the opposition camps. The government, which is preparing to face a united opposition - a bloc of 18 parties - on a host of issues including the landmark Goods and Services Tax, held not only a strategy session ...

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's party Janata Dal (United) on Tuesday sealed its support for Gopalkrishna Gandhi, the opposition's joint candidate for the Vice President, the second time that the party's lawmakers will support the government's candidate for presidential elections and the opposition in the vice presidential polls. But the similar...

At another lunch next week, Congress President Sonia Gandhi will make a fresh attempt to rebuild opposition unity that came under strain last month after Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's party the Janata Dal (United) decided to back the Narendra Modi government's choice for President, Ram Nath Kovind.

The election for the next President of India, if one is needed, will be held on July 17, and votes will be counted three days later. President Pranab Mukherjee's term ends on July 24.

As DMK chief M Karunanidhi turned 94 today, his birthday party served as a gathering for more than one cause. While his party marked the occasion to celebrate his sixty years of being a legislator without losing a single election, the birthday bash was also a show of unity among an otherwise fragmented opposition ahead of the Presidential election....

As DMK chief M Karunanidhi turns 94 today, his birthday party will serve as a gathering for more than one cause. While his party will mark the occasion as one to celebrate his sixty years of being a legislator without losing a single election, a host opposition parties will huddle around in what is being seen as a show of unity ahead of the Preside...

Congress president Sonia Gandhi hosted a lunch for the leaders of the opposition parties in the capital today where several arch-rivals put up a united face. On the menu was the upcoming Presidential election. Leaders of 16 parties discussed the possibility of fielding a joint candidate for President to take on the BJP-led National Democratic Allia...

Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, whose offer to run for President was recently rejected by veteran politician Sharad Pawar, got a dose of feel-good from someone who has never let her down. Bihar's Lalu Yadav has assured her that he will without question back any candidate that she picks to be a united Opposition's candidate for the presidential electio...

Sharad Pawar has cancelled himself from the opposition's list of potential candidates for the presidential elections, turning down a request from Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, his Nationalist Congress Party said.

A united Opposition candidate for the presidential elections will be the beginning of unity among the non-BJP parties to take on the BJP, senior JD(U) leader Sharad Yadav, seen as one of the probable Opposition choices, said today. Having met Congress chief Sonia Gandhi last week as part of efforts to put up a joint Opposition candidate for the hig...