Meira Kumar: Will challenge on board of vote based esteems

New Delhi, Jun 27 Opposition presidential applicant Meira Kumar today said she would challenge the surveys on the board of law based esteems, comprehensiveness, social equity and decimation of rank structure.

Kumar, the daughter of iconic Dalit pioneer Jagjivan Ram, mourned that the surveys were being viewed as a "Dalit versus Dalit" challenge. The caste system, she told reporters, ought to be "covered where it counts" in the earth.

Gotten some information about affirmed assaults on Dalits in the current past, she stated, "It is very sameful."

The former Lok Sabha speaker, picked as the opposition's candidate to challenge against BJP's chosen one Ram Nath Kovind in the presidential race one month from now, said she had not decided whether or not to engage JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar to bolster her assignment.

Kumar additionally said she would dispatch her survey crusade from Sabarmati Ashram in Gujarat.

"All MPs valued my style of working when I was Lok Sabha speaker... none affirmed I was one-sided," she said.

Hinting at bias, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj had posted a video of her Lok Sabha speech in 2013 in which then speaker Kumar is seemingly not extending protection against disruptions in the house.