Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam president and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on Thursday made it clear that his party will support a Congress candidate in the Presidential election.
He also expressed confidence that a consensus will be evolved in the United Progressive Alliance over its presidential nominee and made it clear that his party.
"Yes, definitely," Karunanidhi shot back in English when asked by reporters if his party would support a Congress candidate.
"I have confidence over evolving a consensus," he told the media before leaving for his meeting with Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for consultations on the issue after a round of discussions with Left party leaders, including Prakash Karat and A B Bardhan on Thursday morning.
"If there was one, I would have said it," Karunanidhi said when he was asked whether a consensus would be arrived at on the three names that appeared in the newspapers today -- Shivraj Patil, Sushil Kumar Shinde and Karan Singh -- as the ruling coalition's presidential candidate.
Asked whether the candidate would belong to Congress or other some other party, he said "It is a Congress candidate."