By PTI
NEW DELHI: India on Thursday will know who will succeed incumbent Ram Nath Kovind to grow to be the nation’s fifteenth President, as counting of votes for the presidential election begins at 11 am on the Parliament House right here.
Ruling NDA’s Droupadi Murmu and Opposition’s Yashwant Sinha are pitted in opposition to one another within the contest, with votes clearly stacked in favour of Murmu, who, if elected, would be the first tribal girl to occupy the highest constitutional put up within the nation.
Kovind’s tenure is ending on July 24 and the brand new president will take oath on July 25.
With poll containers from all states had reached the Parliament House, ballot officers are prepared for the counting in room quantity 63, the strongroom of Parliament the place the containers are guarded behind round the clock safety.
Rajya Sabha Secretary General P C Mody, who’s the Chief Returning Officer for the ballot, will oversee the counting Thursday, the results of which is prone to be declared by the night.
Mody will first transient on the ballot traits in any case votes of MPs have been counted, after which once more after votes of 10 states in alphabetical order have been counted.
Sources mentioned he’ll transient as soon as extra on the ballot traits after votes of 20 states have been counted, after which lastly declare the end result after the entire counting.
All poll containers from state assemblies had reached the Parliament’s strongroom on Tuesday night and have been locked there since.
The poll containers had been flown into the nationwide capital as ‘Mr Ballot Box’ from throughout the states.
‘Mr Ballot Box’ got here seated within the entrance row of plane underneath the watchful gaze of the Assistant Returning Officers (AROs) of their respective states.
The Election Commission had on Monday posted pictures of the sealed poll containers onboard flights accompanied by AROs.
According to the EC, every poll field was issued an e-ticket underneath the identify ‘Mr Ballot Box’.
Polling for the presidential election was held between 10 am to five pm Monday at 31 places together with the Parliament House and 30 centres inside state legislative assemblies.
There are additionally studies of cross-voting in favour of Murmu in quite a lot of states.
There is not any whip issued to members within the presidential ballot.
MPs of each, Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, besides nominated MPs, and all MLAs within the legislative meeting in all states act as electors within the presidential ballot.
A complete of 4,809 electors, comprising 776 MPs and 4,033 elected MLAs, are entitled to vote within the election, however nominated MPs and MLAs, and Members of the Legislative Council should not.
Over 99 per cent of the entire electors had forged their poll within the ballot that came about Monday, in response to the Election Commission.
Eight MPs, together with BJP MPs Sunny Deol and Sanjay Dhotre, have been amongst those that missed casting their votes.
Actor-politician Deol missed voting since he’s overseas for medical therapy, whereas Dhotre gave it a move since he was within the ICU.
Two MPs every from BJP and Shiv Sena, and one from the BSP, Congress, SP, and AIMIM missed voting within the Monday polls.
Kovind had grow to be the President after polling 7,02,044 votes out of a complete of 10,69,358 votes, whereas his rival Meira Kumar polled solely 3,67,314 votes.
NEW DELHI: India on Thursday will know who will succeed incumbent Ram Nath Kovind to grow to be the nation’s fifteenth President, as counting of votes for the presidential election begins at 11 am on the Parliament House right here.
Ruling NDA’s Droupadi Murmu and Opposition’s Yashwant Sinha are pitted in opposition to one another within the contest, with votes clearly stacked in favour of Murmu, who, if elected, would be the first tribal girl to occupy the highest constitutional put up within the nation.
Kovind’s tenure is ending on July 24 and the brand new president will take oath on July 25.
With poll containers from all states had reached the Parliament House, ballot officers are prepared for the counting in room quantity 63, the strongroom of Parliament the place the containers are guarded behind round the clock safety.
Rajya Sabha Secretary General P C Mody, who’s the Chief Returning Officer for the ballot, will oversee the counting Thursday, the results of which is prone to be declared by the night.
Mody will first transient on the ballot traits in any case votes of MPs have been counted, after which once more after votes of 10 states in alphabetical order have been counted.
Sources mentioned he’ll transient as soon as extra on the ballot traits after votes of 20 states have been counted, after which lastly declare the end result after the entire counting.
All poll containers from state assemblies had reached the Parliament’s strongroom on Tuesday night and have been locked there since.
The poll containers had been flown into the nationwide capital as ‘Mr Ballot Box’ from throughout the states.
‘Mr Ballot Box’ got here seated within the entrance row of plane underneath the watchful gaze of the Assistant Returning Officers (AROs) of their respective states.
The Election Commission had on Monday posted pictures of the sealed poll containers onboard flights accompanied by AROs.
According to the EC, every poll field was issued an e-ticket underneath the identify ‘Mr Ballot Box’.
Polling for the presidential election was held between 10 am to five pm Monday at 31 places together with the Parliament House and 30 centres inside state legislative assemblies.
There are additionally studies of cross-voting in favour of Murmu in quite a lot of states.
There is not any whip issued to members within the presidential ballot.
MPs of each, Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, besides nominated MPs, and all MLAs within the legislative meeting in all states act as electors within the presidential ballot.
A complete of 4,809 electors, comprising 776 MPs and 4,033 elected MLAs, are entitled to vote within the election, however nominated MPs and MLAs, and Members of the Legislative Council should not.
Over 99 per cent of the entire electors had forged their poll within the ballot that came about Monday, in response to the Election Commission.
Eight MPs, together with BJP MPs Sunny Deol and Sanjay Dhotre, have been amongst those that missed casting their votes.
Actor-politician Deol missed voting since he’s overseas for medical therapy, whereas Dhotre gave it a move since he was within the ICU.
Two MPs every from BJP and Shiv Sena, and one from the BSP, Congress, SP, and AIMIM missed voting within the Monday polls.
Kovind had grow to be the President after polling 7,02,044 votes out of a complete of 10,69,358 votes, whereas his rival Meira Kumar polled solely 3,67,314 votes.
