Prez polls: Pranab’s city visit today
UPA’s Presidential candidate Pranab Mukherjee would be arriving in the city on Sunday to meet Congress legislators to formally request them to vote for him. Mr Mukherjee, along with Union ministers Ghulam Nabi Azad and Vayalar Ravi, would be arriving in Hyderabad from Chennai at 10.30 am. He will address the Congress Legislature Party meeting at the Jubilee Hall from where he would proceed to a hotel on Road No. 1, Banjara Hills, to meet MIM chief and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi.
The MIM has already extended support to his candidature. However, it was still unclear whether or not he would meet TD, TRS and YSR Congress leaders during his two-hour visit. TD sources said they have no word about him meeting their party chief N. Chandrababu Naidu. Besides, the TD would take some more time to announce its stand on the Presidential polls.
Likewise, TRS leader T. Harish Rao too said that there was no possibility of party leaders meeting Mr Mukherjee, nor was there any meeting set up with party chief K. Chandrasekhar Rao, who was away at his farmhouse in Medak district. Mr Harish Rao said that the TRS would take a decision about the Presidential polls a few days prior to the election. However, a source in the YSR Congress said that an ‘important leader’ from the Congress had contacted the leadership, suggesting that Mr Mukherjee was likely to pay Y.S. Vijayalakshmi a visit on Sunday afternoon.
“We have no objection, but unless there is going to be a confirmation of the meeting by Saturday night, Ms Vijayalakshmi would proceed to Visakhapatnam on Sunday morning to attend a local function,” he said. A key functionary in the state Congress party, however, ruled out the possibility of Mr Mukherjee meeting any leader other than Mr Owaisi.
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