Sonia Gandhi is ready to pay any cost to revive the Congress. This strategy of his is clearly visible in the presidential election. According to the situation so far, the Congress does not want to sabotage the opposition unity by fielding its candidate. He knows that it is very important to weaken the BJP to survive.
Amidst the ED’s sword in the National Herald case, Sonia Gandhi herself called Mamata Banerjee and Sharad Pawar. Congress says that this is the time to rise above differences and save the country. She will run with all the opposition parties.
However, the initiative of opposition unity has been taken by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. He has written to opposition chief ministers and leaders to attend a joint meeting at Constitution Club Delhi on June 15. He has written letters to 22 leaders including non-BJP ruled chief ministers Arvind Kejriwal, Pinarayi Vijayan, Naveen Patnaik, K Chandrashekhar Rao, MK Stalin, Uddhav Thackeray, Hemant Soren, Bhagwant Mann and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi.
The Election Commission has fixed July 18 as the date for the presidential election. If more than one candidate is in the fray, then voting will be held again. In the presidential election, all eyes are now on who the BJP makes its candidate. If elections are held, the BJP is in a better position with the support of its allies. In the current total of 772 members of both the houses, the BJP has a majority. There are currently three vacant seats in the Lok Sabha and 13 in the Rajya Sabha. Therefore, there is a possibility of change in these figures till the date of election.
According to a report, the total votes for the Presidential election as on date are around 10.8 lakhs. NDA has 5,26 thousand votes. UPA has 2,59 thousand votes. Trinamool Congress, YSRP, BJD, SP and Left have 2,92 thousand votes. There are a total of 4,790 MLAs in the states. The value of his votes is 5.4 lakhs. The number of MPs is 767 whose total value of votes is also around 5.4 lakhs. The value of the vote of an MLA is decided on the basis of the population of the state and the number of MLAs. The value of votes of MPs is determined by dividing the total value of votes of MLAs by the number of MPs in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. If seen, UP is important in this respect. BJP is strong here.