99% Voting In India's Presidential Poll, Droupadi Murmu Set For Easy Win
Date
7/19/2022 5:10:07 AM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
The ruling NDA candidate, Droupadi Murmu, is all set for an easy
win over Opposition nominee Yashwant Sinha in the 16th presidential
election that concluded here today with 99.12 per cent overall
turnout and 100 per cent voting in 11 states, including Himachal
Pradesh.
Congress MP Sonia Gandhi, National conference MP Farooq
Abdullah, Covid-positive Union Minister RK Singh in a PPE kit, West
Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal
cast their votes during the presidential election at Parliament
House in New Delhi on Monday. Mukesh Aggarwal/PTI
Out of the electoral college of 4,809 (776 MPs and 4,033 MLAs),
4,796 electors featured in the final voter list while 4,754 of them
cast their vote. Two MLAs were declared ineligible to vote
subsequent to a court judgment while five vacancies exist in the
Rajya Sabha and six in state Assemblies, leaving 13 electors
out.
The Election Commission said of the 771 MPs and 4,025 MLAs (six
vacancies and two disqualifications) eligible electors, 763 MPs and
3,991 MLAs cast their vote. Eight MPs didn't turn up for voting,
among them BJP's Sunny Deol (Gurdaspur) and Union Minister Sanjay
Dhotre and Congress' Mohd Sadiq (Faridkot).
Sources said Deol was abroad for treatment while Dhotre was
hospitalised.
The counting of votes will happen at Parliament House from 11 am
on July 21 and the results will be declared soon after the counting
ended, returning officer and Rajya Sabha Secretary General PC Mody
said. The 15th President will take oath on July 25, a day after
incumbent Ram Nath Kovind's term ends.
The 2017 election had witnessed nearly 99 per cent voting, then
termed“the highest ever”. Among early voters today were PM
Narendra Modi, ex-PM Manmohan Singh and BJP chief JP Nadda.
Manmohan and SP founder Mulayam Singh Yadav arrived in wheelchairs
due to ill health as excitement of the process was palpable around
Parliament House's Room No. 63, one of the 31 voting locations, the
others being in states. Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and Rahul
Gandhi voted around 3 pm while ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and RK
Singh, down with Covid, cast their ballot in PPE kits after 4
pm.
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