The Aam Aadmi Party will support Yashwant Sinha in Monday’s presidential election, MP Sanjay Singh said Saturday after the AAP’s political affairs committee met in Delhi.
Yashwant Sinha is the candidate of a joint opposition front spearheaded by Bengal chief minister and Trinamool leader Mamata Banerjee that included the Congress but not the AAP.
“We have respect for Draupadi Murmu but will support Yashwant Sinhaji,” Sanjay Singh said.
Sinha is a former union minister and ex-member of both the Bharatiya Janata Party and Trinamool, the latter of which he joined in March last year and from which he resigned last month after being named the opposition front’s candidate.
He faces ex-BJP leader and former Jharkhand governor Droupadi Murmu, who has bee fielded by his former party and is widely expected to win Monday’s poll.