President Poll Special – Will Kalam again be the President?

Dr Kalam in BiharWill Dr. Kalam agian be the Prsident of India? Till date no President of India ever had a second term, except Dr. Rajendra Prasad who was the First President of India.
Sources say that Dr. Kalam is ready provided some consensus is reached. Even People of India mostly want Dr. Kalam for the post.

Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee and SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav have taken A P J Abdul Kalam into confidence before naming him as one of the presidential candidates this evening. There was, however, no confirmation from Kalam’s office.

But sources in Samajwadi Party said Yadav and Banerjee had spoken with the former President before naming him along with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and former Speaker Somnath Chatterjee as their presidential candidates.

Kalam, who was NDA’s choice for the President’s post in 2002, was also favoured initially by BJP for the top post this time around. NDA had also unsuccessfully pushed for his candidature for a second term in 2007. Kalam has, however, maintained he would agree to enter the fray only if there is consensus on his name.

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