Draupadi Murmu meets H D Deve Gowda, seeks JD(S) support
Bengaluru(PTI): The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance's presidential candidate Draupadi Murmu on Sunday met former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda and sought the JD(S) support for the presidential election on July 18.
She was accompanied by Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, Union Minister for Coal and Mines Pralhad Joshi, and BJP national general secretary C T Ravi during the meeting with Gowda. His sons H D Kumaraswamy, a former chief minister, and H D Revanna, a former minister, were also present.
Earlier, Bommai and BJP State president Nalin Kumar Kateel and other functionaries of the party received Murmu on her arrival here by a private jet by garlanding her and honouring her with a shawl and Mysuru 'peta' (turban).
Later, Murmu went to a hotel where she addressed the BJP legislators and MPs, seeking their support in the election.
She had in the past spoken to Gowda and sought his well-wishes on the presidential election and H D Kumaraswamy had indicated the party's support to her.
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Bengal polls: RG Kar victim's mother files nomination as BJP candidate from Panihati
Kolkata (PTI): Ratna Debnath, mother of the raped-murdered RG Kar hospital doctor and the BJP candidate from Panihati, filed her nomination papers on Thursday.
She was accompanied by senior BJP leader and former Union minister Smriti Irani and district party leaders.
Speaking to reporters after filing her nomination, she said her sole aim is to oust the TMC regime in West Bengal, which, she alleged, would ensure women's safety in the state and prevent a recurrence of incidents like the RG Kar case.
Nearly a year and a half after the brutal killing of her 26-year-old daughter inside a locked seminar room of the state-run hospital in August 2024, Debnath agreed to contest the polls on a BJP ticket from her hometown Panihati after being approached by the party "to bring to light the truth behind the crime".
She is pitted against TMC's Tirthankar Ghosh and CPI(M)'s Kalatan Dasgupta.
