A week after the Opposition Presidential candidate Yashwant Sinha visited Bengaluru, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu met the Bharatiya Janata Party and Janata Dal (Secular) leaders in the city seeking their support in the ensuing election.
While Ms. Murmu arrived in the city by Sunday afternoon, she participated in the meeting of BJP legislators and Members of Parliament at a hotel in the evening. The BJP meeting chaired by Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, was also attended by former Chief Ministers B.S. Yediyurappa and Jagadish Shettar, Union Minister Pralhad Joshi, BJP State president Nalin Kumar Kateel and a host of Ministers.
The BJP has 122 legislators (including two Independents and Speaker), 25 Lok Sabha members, and six Rajya Sabha members who are eligible to vote in the Presidential elections. The JD(S) has 32 legislators (including two who have been suspended for cross-voting during the recent Rajya Sabha elections), one Lok Sabha and one Rajya Sabha member who can vote.
