The Opposition parties that want to mount an ideological contest against the BJP are at pains to explain themselves for picking bureaucrat-turned-politician Yashwant Sinha who was for 22 years with the very party they seek to oppose.
The Opposition leaders quoted his record of the last four years, since he resigned from the BJP in 2018 as a virulent critic of the Narendra Modi government, as one of the reasons for his selection.
