Rashid Masood, the candidate of the Third Front, filed his nomination papers for the August 10 Vice Presidential poll on Friday with the backing of regional parties, including the AIADMK, which had voted in Thursdays presidential poll, defying the groupings decision to abstain.
New Delhi, July 20 : Rashid Masood, the candidate of the Third Front, filed his nomination papers for the August 10 Vice Presidential poll on Friday with the backing of regional parties, including the AIADMK, which had voted in Thursday's presidential poll, defying the grouping's decision to abstain.
Masood, who was accompanied by leaders of all the seven parties of the United National Progressive Alliance (UNPA), filed one set of papers carrying 40 signatures of proposers, which included MPs of the AIADMK and MDMK.
After filing the nomination paper, the leaders posed for photographs seeking to put up a united face, a day after MPs from AIADMK, MDMK and SP participated in the voting for electing the successor to APJ Abdul Kalam.
"We are solid as rock," Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh told reporters.
Singh said some MPs belonging to UNPA parties had voted out of a confusion created by the Election Commission and senior BJP leader L K Advani that by abstaining they might lose their membership.
To a question, he said AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa did not come today as she was unwell.
ANI