Home Minister Bal Krishna Khand and Finance Minister Janardan Sharma on Wednesday held a meeting to discuss the budget related to the upcoming election.
The UML and Rastriya Swatantra Party briefly obstructed the House meeting on Tuesday over a provision to conduct election-related work by a unit at the district administration offices.
NEW DELHI, June 22: The National Democratic Alliance (NDA), the ruling alliance in India, said on Tuesday that Draupadi Murmu will be its candidate for the presidential election scheduled to be held next month.
Going by past experiences, the ruling party's or alliance's candidate wins the presidential election. Hence, it is assumed that Draupadi is expected to win the Presidential election.
If she wins, Draupadi will be the country's second woman president, after Pratibha Devisingh Patil who served as the head of state during 2007-2012.
Draupadi hails from India's eastern state of Odisha, and is a former minister in Odisha state government and former governor of the state of Jharkhand.
Making the formal announcement in New Delhi, ruling Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) President J.P. Nadda said that a consensus was achieved among NDA partners to select a lady candidate from the country's eastern part as its presidential candidate.
Voting by elected representatives, Members of Parliament and Members of Legislative Assembly across all states, will take place on July 18 and the counting of votes is slated to be held on July 21.
Earlier in the day, the opposition parties fielded Yashwant Sinha as their joint candidate for the presidential election. Sinha is the country's former finance minister and a senior politician.
Sweden's first-ever female prime minister has resigned just hours after she was appointed, reported BBC.
Magdalena Andersson, was announced as the leader on Wednesday but resigned after her coalition partner quit the government and her budget failed to pass.
Instead, parliament voted for a budget drawn-up by the opposition which includes the anti-immigrant far-right.
"I have told the speaker that I wish to resign," Ms Andersson told reporters.
Her coalition partner, the Greens Party said it could not accept a budget "drafted for the first time with the far-right".
Ms Andersson said that she hoped to try to become prime minister again as a single party government leader.
"There is a constitutional practice that a coalition government should resign when one party quits," the Social Democrat said on Wednesday. "I don't want to lead a government whose legitimacy will be questioned.
The speaker of parliament said he would contact party leaders on the next move.
Ms Andersson was elected as prime minister earlier on Wednesday because under Swedish law, she only needed a majority of MPs not to vote against her.
A hundred years after Swedish women were given the vote, the 54-year-old Social Democrat leader was given a standing ovation by sections of the parliament, or Riksdag.
Her election at the head of a minority government followed an 11th-hour deal with the opposition Left party, in exchange for higher pensions for many Swedes. She also secured the support of coalition partner the Greens.
Of the 349 members of the Riksdag, 174 voted against her. But on top of the 117 MPs who backed Ms Andersson, a further 57 abstained, giving her victory by a single vote.
A former junior swimming champion from the university city of Uppsala, she began her political career in 1996 as political adviser to then-Prime Minister Goran Persson. She has spent the past seven years as finance minister.
Before MPs backed Magdalena Andersson, Sweden was the only Nordic state never to have a woman as PM.
