Allies snub Sonia, Pranab, PM

In what could cause irretrievable cracks in the already beleaguered UPA, its key allies Mamata Banerjee and Mulayam Singh Yadav today openly colluded to inflict a humiliating snub to the Congress by rejecting Sonia Gandhi’s first choice of Pranab Mukherjee for President and proposing instead — in a dramatic twist — Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s name for the post.

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