As their candidate Yashwant Sinha officially declared his candidacy for the election on Monday, leaders of many opposition parties argued that the election is a contest between two ideas and not between specific candidates. The anger of the RSS on the one side and the sympathy of the opposition parties on the other, according to former president of the Congress Rahul Gandhi, is the actual conflict. Droupadi Murmu is the presidential candidate put out by the NDA. 'We are all standing behind Yashwant Sinha, Jr. However, the fundamental conflict is between two ideas, even though we undoubtedly favour the individual. One RSS ideology is one of rage, hatred, and the other is one of unity, compassion, among all the opposition parties' added he. He claimed that Sinha is supported by the entire opposition.
