Presidential Election 2022: BSP supremo Mayawati backs Draupadi Murmu for President

In a major development, which almost sealed Draupadi's Murmu's election to the top executive post, BSP supremo Mayawati today backed Murmu's candidature, saying that she was not consulted by other oppostion parties.

“We’ve decided to support NDA’s Presidential election candidate Droupadi Murmu. We’ve taken this decision neither in support of BJP or NDA nor against opposition but keeping our party and movement in mind,” said Mayawati.

Droupadi Murmu, nominated by the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) for President, on Friday called up key opposition leaders, including Congress chief Sonia Gandhi.


She filed her nomination on Friday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi handing over her set of papers to Returning Officer PC Mody. She was accompanied by a host of Union Ministers, including Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh and Nitin Gadkari and BJP president JP Nadda.

Several chief ministers of BJP-ruled states including Yogi Adityanath, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Manohar Lal Khattar, Jairam Thakur, Pushkar Singh Dhami and leaders of some NDA supporting parties like YSRCP, BJD and AIADMK were also present during her nomination filing.