Amaravati: The Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress (YSRC) has announced its support for the candidature of the ruling National Democratic Alliance’s (NDA) nominee, Draupadi Murmu, for the post of the President of India in the July 18 election.
A release from the Andhra Pradesh chief minister’s office on Thursday (June 23) night hailed the nomination of Murmu for the top constitutional post.
It is a good sign that a person from a tribal community, that too a woman, has been nominated for the President’s post for the first time in the history of independent India. Hence, the YSRC extends its support to her, the CMO release said.
Though chief minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy wanted to attend Murmu’s nomination filing event in New Delhi on Friday, he skipped it because of a pre-scheduled meeting of the state cabinet.
YSRC parliamentary party leader V. Vijayasai Reddy and leader in the Lok Sabha, P. Midhun Reddy will represent the YSRC at the event, the release added.
The YSRC has nine members in the Rajya Sabha and 22 in Lok Sabha, besides 151 members in the AP legislative assembly.
(PTI)