Mohan Bhagwat says 'Not in Race' for becoming President

Putting to rest all speculation RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has said that he is not in the race for the President of India for which the elections are to be held later this year.

BJP ally Shiv Sena had earlier this week proposed Bhagwat's name for the post, with party MP and spokesperson Sanjay Raut extending support to any such move by the NDA in the future.

But in the political circles, Shiv Sena's move was being seen largely in the context of the intermittent but continual brinkmanship between the two parties which recently fought a bitter political battle in BMC election. Though an ally of the BJP, has in the last two years not lost any opportunity to attack is senior partner- both in Maharashtra and Delhi.

Earlier last week, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee had broached this topic in an interview proposing many names including that of BJP veteran L K Advani.

After registering an emphatic victory in the latest round of state assembly polls, BJP has inched very close to the half way mark in the electoral college for the President of India.

And it is one post- a constitutional one at that- which no RSS swayamsevak has ever occupied.