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NEW DELHI: The United National Progressive Alliance (UNPA) on Saturday decided to abstain from voting in the July 19 Presidential polls and put up its own candidate for the post of Vice President.
The UNPA would support a Left candidate for vice-presidentship ''only if they withdraw from the UPA,'' AIADMK supremo and Aliance leader Jayalalithaa said briefing the media after a three-hour long meeting of the leaders here
She also announced that the Alliance will keep equidistance from both the UPA and NDA, and will not support presidential candidate of either.
''Keeping that in view, we have decided to abstain from voting in July 19 polls,'' she said, adding that abstention was legally a right step.
TDP chief Chandra Babu Naidu said they were yet to decide the name of their candidate for the vice presidential election.
However, they were not expecting any support either from NDA or the Left.
''We are not expecting to win, but we are fielding our candidate tor register our identity,'' Jayalalithaa said replying to the question as to whether they expected any suport for their candidate.
Earlier, political circles were agog with speculations that the UNPA will support a Left candidate for the post of Vice President.
The decisions taken by the UNPA were significant in view of the fact that these were arrived at after CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat met some of the Alliance leaders including Chandrababu Naidu earlier in the day.
The UNPA would support a Left candidate for vice-presidentship ''only if they withdraw from the UPA,'' AIADMK supremo and Aliance leader Jayalalithaa said briefing the media after a three-hour long meeting of the leaders here
She also announced that the Alliance will keep equidistance from both the UPA and NDA, and will not support presidential candidate of either.
''Keeping that in view, we have decided to abstain from voting in July 19 polls,'' she said, adding that abstention was legally a right step.
TDP chief Chandra Babu Naidu said they were yet to decide the name of their candidate for the vice presidential election.
However, they were not expecting any support either from NDA or the Left.
''We are not expecting to win, but we are fielding our candidate tor register our identity,'' Jayalalithaa said replying to the question as to whether they expected any suport for their candidate.
Earlier, political circles were agog with speculations that the UNPA will support a Left candidate for the post of Vice President.
The decisions taken by the UNPA were significant in view of the fact that these were arrived at after CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat met some of the Alliance leaders including Chandrababu Naidu earlier in the day.