MUMBAI: Former Union Minister and sitting Lok Sabha MP of Samajwadi Party Rasheed Masood will be the candidate of United National Progressive Alliance (UNPA) for the Vice Presidential poll.
The announcement of candidature of 59-year-old Masood, a five-time MP from Saharanpur in Western UP, was announced by Samajwadi Party General Secretary Amar Singh at a press conference here.
"Masood has excellent credentials. He has been a MP several times, as well as a Cabinet minister. He is a veteran politician and his credentials are defintely better than those of Pratibha Patil's," Singh told reporters here.
"Masood was the unanimous choice of all the members of the UNPA", Singh claimed adding there were other names discussed but there is no point mentioning it now".
