New Delhi: Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy on Wednesday asked Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa to support APJ Abdul Kalam for the post of President instead of NCP leader PA Sangma whom she had already chosen.
In a statement, Swamy said she should support Kalam for the post of president. "She should phone him up and persuade him to become her candidate. Sangma has lost all moral authority to be a non Congress candidate after apologising to (Congress chief) Sonia Gandhi (for raking up her foreign origin issue)," he said.
In a coordinated move, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa and her Odisha counterpart Navin Patnaik had on May 17 announced their joint support to Sangma.
Jayalalithaa had spoke to BJP leader LK Advani, Samajwadi chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and other non-Congress leaders, including Left parties, in support of Sangma.
The NCP leader is also doing rounds of several parties, seeking support for his Presidential bid.
In another statement, Swamy demanded action against those responsible for the killing of 42 Muslim youths in Hashimpura in Meerut 25 years ago. He said he had gone on a fast in 1987 and he broke the fast after the government accepted his demands for a probe.
Swamy claimed the report of the inquiry committee had confirmed his allegations which he made in several press conferences he had addressed during those days.
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