Last Update: July 09, 2022, 07:29 AM IST
Draupadi Murmu: Presidential candidate by the NDA government. (File photo: Moneycontrol)
Murmu is visiting various states to seek support from lawmakers for the presidential election to be held on July 18.
NDA presidential candidate Draupadi Murmu’s scheduled visit to Kolkata on Saturday to meet BJP MPs from West Bengal has been canceled in view of a day-long national mourning in honor of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Murmu is visiting various states to seek support from lawmakers for the presidential election to be held on July 18.
Bengal BJP said, “A day of national mourning will be observed on July 9 in honor of former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe. Therefore, all programs of NDA’s presidential candidate Draupadi Murmu on July 9, 2022 have been cancelled. ” a statement. Abe, 67, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, was assassinated earlier in the day in the western Japanese city of Nara while campaigning for his party.
A senior BJP leader said Murmu would be in New Delhi on Saturday. Murmu’s visit to Kolkata will be rescheduled later,’ he said.
She was scheduled to meet BJP MPs and MLAs at a hotel in Kolkata’s New Town area on Saturday afternoon.
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