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India's Uttar Pradesh state Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav (L) embraces Indian presidential candidate Pranab Mukherjee (C) while Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav (R) looks on during a meeting in Lucknow on July 3, 2012. India's former finance minister Pranab Mukherjee filed his nomination papers June 28 to contest the country's presidential election. The 77-year-old politician was selected last month as the ruling coalition's nominee to succeed Indian President Pratibha Patil, despite some clashes between various coalition partners as to whom would make the best candidate.

India's Uttar Pradesh state Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav (L) embraces Indian presidential candidate Pranab Mukherjee (C) while Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav (R) looks on during a meeting in Lucknow on July 3, 2012. India's former finance minister Pranab Mukherjee filed his nomination papers June 28 to contest the country's presidential election. The 77-year-old politician was selected last month as the ruling coalition's nominee to succeed Indian President Pratibha Patil, despite some clashes between various coalition partners as to whom would make the best candidate.