Congress allies said President to be chosen with consensus

The former president APJ Abdul Kalam and two other names cause stir along with two names of Congress make the choice expand to five.With PM opting for President candidate, in-fight to intensify in Congress for three post  as FM moves to PM and other ministerial  fill the gap.All three probables are politically   suave.

TMC and SP, shot a political googly  by suggesting  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, former president APJ Abdul Kalam and former Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee are the three people favoured by the  Mulayam Singh's of Samajwadi Party (SP) and Mamata Banerjee of the Trinamool Congress to be India's next president. On Sonia Gandhi's suggestions, the allies said that they wanted the president to be chosen with consensus.Mamata Banerjee today met Congress President Sonia Gandhi earlier in the day and annouced that Sonia Gandhi suggested the names of Hamid Ansari and Pranab Mukherjee as possible candidates for the post of President.Congress president Sonia Gandhi today made it clear that finance minister Pranab Mukherjee was her first choice for presidency and Vice-President Hamid Ansari was also in the reckoning.