For Yashwant Sinha, Running For President, Opposition Out In Full Strength

Though Mr Sinha is likely to lose, several opposition leaders turned up in a show of strength and unity.

Yashwant Sinha, the joint opposition Presidential candidate, filed his nomination today in the presence of several opposition leaders. He was flanked by NCP chief Sharad Pawar and former Congress president Rahul Gandhi.

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee, Farooq Abdullah from the Jammu & Kashmir National Conference, RLD's Jayant Sinha, CPI(M)'s Sitaram Yechury, and Telangana Minister and TRS leader KT Rama Rao were among the opposition leaders present at the Parliament house while former union minister Yashwant Sinha filed his nomination as the consensus candidate from the opposition.