Hyderabad: Prakash Ambedkar, a former MP and grandson of B R Ambedkar, is emerging as the top pick of Left parties for the presidential election against the NDA nominee Ram Nath Kovind.
The 63-year-old Prakash, a Dalit, is a former Lok Sabha member from Akola in Maharashtra. He is the leader of Bharip Bahujan Mahasangh.
CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury is holding informal consultations with the Congress and non-NDA parties to seek their opinion about his candidature, sources in Left parties said on Thursday.
"We are thinking of Prakash Ambedkar. If the Congress and other opposition parties agree, we will put him up (for the July 17 presidential election)," a source in the Left camp said.
The Left parties are firm that the opposition must put up its candidate against Kovind, though they are well aware that the numbers are loaded against the opposition, the sources said.
Senior leaders of non-NDA parties, including Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, NCP president Sharad Pawar and Yechury, are slated to meet tomorrow to discuss the issue.
The Nitish Kumar-led JD(U) on Friday announced its support for Kovind, dealing a serious blow to the opposition parties' attempts to put up a united candidate against him.
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