The National Democratic Alliance’s (NDA) presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu visited Raipur on Friday and met Chhattisgarh lawmakers to seek support in the July 18 election.
Murmu, who arrived in a special aircraft, was accorded a grand welcome by a large number of BJP leaders and workers at the Swami Vivekananda Airport here.
State BJP chief Vishnu Deo Sai, former Chief Minister Raman Singh, leader of opposition in the Assembly Dharamlal Kaushik and senior leader Brijmohan Agrawal were among those who received her.
From the airport, Murmu went to Canal Linking Road where she offered a garland to the statue of Rani Durgavati.
After that, she went to a hotel on Jail Road where she met MLAs and MPs.
Murmu, a former Governor of Jharkhand, interacted with BJP MLAs and MPs and legislators from Janata Congress Chhattisgarh (J) and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) – two other opposition parties in the state assembly.
Value of votes of the Chhattisgarh legislators is 129 while MPs have a vote value of 708.
In the 90-member Chhattisgarh assembly, the Congress has 71 MLAs, BJP 14 while JCC (J) and BSP have three and two members respectively. Of the 11 Lok Sabha MPs from the state, nine are from the BJP while two belong to the ruling Congress.
The Congress has four Rajya Sabha members and BJP one from the state.