MADURAI: The NDA Presidential candidate Mr.Ram Nath Kovind was given a rousing reception in Vijayawada on July 4th (Tuesday) when he went to Andhra Pradesh to formally seek support for his candidature in the election to President of India to be held on July 17th 2017.
He was accompanied by Union Ministers, senior BJP leaders and Members of Parliament.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N.Chandrababu Naidu received Mr.Kovind at the Gannavaram airport and later proceeded along with him to the A Convention Centre in Vijayawada at 3 p.m. on July 4th where Mr.Kovind was introduced to the Ministers, MPs and MLAs belonging to the Telugu Desam Party (TDP).
CONSTITUTION IS MY GUIDE:
Speaking at the meeting, Mr.Kovind said that he will keep the office of the President above partisan politics and he always firmly believed that Constitution is the guidebook.
“The office of President of India reflects our democratic traditions…Our Constitution is the supreme. For our country, it is the Bhagavad Gita, Bible, Ramayana and Quran. As the Governor of Bihar, I was not associated with any political party and I will continue in same way to upkeep the President position above politics,” the NDA presidential candidate assured.
Mr.Kovind had expressed his gratitude to the Modi-led NDA government and all alliance party leaders for supporting him.
PRAISES N.T.RAMA RAO
Earlier, Mr.Kovind garlanded the statue of Telugu Desam Party founder N.T.Rama Rao in the presence of Union Minister M.Venkaiah Naidu and Chief Minister N.Chandrababu Naidu.
“NTR was a great leader and we used to call him Telugu pride. In this State, he is considered as an avatar of Lord Krishna because of the influence of his films on people,” he said.
Mr. P. Muralidhar Rao, BJP national general secretary, Mr.L.Ganesan, BJP’s Rajya Sabha MP from Madhya Pradesh and a very senior party leader in Tamil Nadu along with Andhra Pradesh Assembly Speaker Kodela Sivaprasad Rao, were among those present at the meeting where Mr.Kovind was formally introduced to all the electoral college voters from Andhra Pradesh.
