The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Saturday announced that they will be supporting the Opposition’s presidential candidate Yashwant Sinha in the upcoming Presidential elections in the country. “AAP will support Opposition’s Presidential candidate Yashwant Sinha. We respect Droupadi Murmu, but we will vote for Yashwant Sinha,” AAP MP Sanjay Singh said.

The voting for the next President of India will start on July 18, while its counting will take place on July 21. The decision to back Sinha came after a meeting of the Political Affairs Committee held in the residence of the party`s national convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. The decision was taken by the AAP`s highest decision-making body comprising all of its 11 members—Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, Sanjay Singh, Gopal Rai, Atishi, ND Gupta, Durgesh Pathak, Pankaj Gupta, Raghav Chadha, Imran Hussain, and Rakhi Birla.