
Presidential polls | YSRC extends support to Droupadi Murmu
The Hindu
‘It is a good sign that a person from a tribal community, that too a woman, has been nominated for the President’s post,’ says the release from the CMO.
The YSR Congress has announced its support to the candidature of NDA’s nominee Draupadi Murmu for the post of President of India in the July 18 election.
A release from the Chief Minister’s Office on Thursday night hailed the nomination of Ms. Murmu for the top constitutional post.
- in the history of independent India. Hence, the YSRC extends its support to her,” the CMO release said.
Though Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy wanted to attend Ms. Murmu’s nomination filing event in New Delhi on Friday, he was skipping it because of a prescheduled meeting of the State Cabinet.
The YSRC Parliamentary Party leader V. Vijayasai Reddy and leader in Lok Sabha P Midhun Reddy will represent the YSRC at the event, the release added.
The YSRC has nine members in Rajya Sabha and 22 in Lok Sabha besides 151 members in the AP Legislative Assembly.

Away from the memorial of saint-composer Thyagaraja in Thiruvaiyaru, where his 179th aradhana is marked by five days of uninterrupted concerts, unchavritti and rendering of the Pancharatna kritis, a parallel aradhana is under way in Thanjavur. In the narrow Varagappa Iyer Lane off the bustling South Main Street, devotees queue up at a house named after Thyagaraja. It is here that the idols of Rama, Sita, Lakshmana, Bharata, Shatrughna and Anjaneya, worshipped by Thyagaraja himself, are preserved, along with a portrait of the saint-composer said to have been drawn by his disciples.












