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Who shall be India’s fifteenth President? Nation to understand on Thursday as counting starts at 11 am

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NEW DELHI: India on Thursday will know who will be triumphant incumbent Ram Nath Kovind to turn out to be the rustic’s fifteenth President, as counting of votes for the presidential election starts at 11 am on the Parliament Space right here.

Ruling NDA’s Droupadi Murmu and Opposition’s Yashwant Sinha are pitted in opposition to each and every different within the contest, with votes obviously stacked in favour of Murmu, who, if elected, would be the first tribal lady to occupy the highest constitutional submit within the nation.

Kovind’s tenure is finishing on July 24 and the brand new president will take oath on July 25.

With poll packing containers from all states had reached the Parliament Space, ballot officers are in a position for the counting in room quantity 63, the strongroom of Parliament the place the packing containers are guarded at the back of round the clock safety.

Rajya Sabha Secretary Basic P C Mody, who’s the Leader Returning Officer for the ballot, will oversee the counting Thursday, the results of which is perhaps declared by way of the night.

Mody will first transient at the ballot traits finally votes of MPs were counted, and on the other hand after votes of 10 states in alphabetical order were counted.

Assets mentioned he’s going to transient all over again at the ballot traits after votes of 20 states were counted, after which in any case claim the end result after the full counting.

All poll packing containers from state assemblies had reached the Parliament’s strongroom on Tuesday night and feature been locked there since.

The poll packing containers were flown into the nationwide capital as ‘Mr Poll Field’ from around the states.

‘Mr Poll Field’ got here seated within the entrance row of plane below the watchful gaze of the Assistant Returning Officials (AROs) in their respective states.

The Election Fee had on Monday posted images of the sealed poll packing containers onboard flights accompanied by way of AROs.

Consistent with the EC, each and every poll field used to be issued an e-ticket below the identify ‘Mr Poll Field’.

Polling for the presidential election used to be held between 10 am to five pm Monday at 31 places together with the Parliament Space and 30 centres inside of state legislative assemblies.

There also are reviews of cross-voting in favour of Murmu in various states.

There is not any whip issued to individuals within the presidential ballot.

MPs of each, Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, except for nominated MPs, and all MLAs within the legislative meeting in all states act as electors within the presidential ballot.

A complete of four,809 electors, comprising 776 MPs and four,033 elected MLAs, are entitled to vote within the election, however nominated MPs and MLAs, and Individuals of the Legislative Council don’t seem to be.

Over 99 in line with cent of the full electors had solid their poll within the ballot that happened Monday, in line with the Election Fee.

8 MPs, together with BJP MPs Sunny Deol and Sanjay Dhotre, had been amongst those that overlooked casting their votes.

Actor-politician Deol overlooked vote casting since he’s out of the country for clinical remedy, whilst Dhotre gave it a move since he used to be within the ICU.

Two MPs each and every from BJP and Shiv Sena, and one from the BSP, Congress, SP, and AIMIM overlooked vote casting within the Monday polls.

Kovind had turn out to be the President after polling 7,02,044 votes out of a complete of 10,69,358 votes, whilst his rival Meira Kumar polled handiest 3,67,314 votes.

NEW DELHI: India on Thursday will know who will be triumphant incumbent Ram Nath Kovind to turn out to be the rustic’s fifteenth President, as counting of votes for the presidential election starts at 11 am on the Parliament Space right here.

Ruling NDA’s Droupadi Murmu and Opposition’s Yashwant Sinha are pitted in opposition to each and every different within the contest, with votes obviously stacked in favour of Murmu, who, if elected, would be the first tribal lady to occupy the highest constitutional submit within the nation.

Kovind’s tenure is finishing on July 24 and the brand new president will take oath on July 25.

With poll packing containers from all states had reached the Parliament Space, ballot officers are in a position for the counting in room quantity 63, the strongroom of Parliament the place the packing containers are guarded at the back of round the clock safety.

Rajya Sabha Secretary Basic P C Mody, who’s the Leader Returning Officer for the ballot, will oversee the counting Thursday, the results of which is perhaps declared by way of the night.

Mody will first transient at the ballot traits finally votes of MPs were counted, and on the other hand after votes of 10 states in alphabetical order were counted.

Assets mentioned he’s going to transient all over again at the ballot traits after votes of 20 states were counted, after which in any case claim the end result after the full counting.

All poll packing containers from state assemblies had reached the Parliament’s strongroom on Tuesday night and feature been locked there since.

The poll packing containers were flown into the nationwide capital as ‘Mr Poll Field’ from around the states.

‘Mr Poll Field’ got here seated within the entrance row of plane below the watchful gaze of the Assistant Returning Officials (AROs) in their respective states.

The Election Fee had on Monday posted images of the sealed poll packing containers onboard flights accompanied by way of AROs.

Consistent with the EC, each and every poll field used to be issued an e-ticket below the identify ‘Mr Poll Field’.

Polling for the presidential election used to be held between 10 am to five pm Monday at 31 places together with the Parliament Space and 30 centres inside of state legislative assemblies.

There also are reviews of cross-voting in favour of Murmu in various states.

There is not any whip issued to individuals within the presidential ballot.

MPs of each, Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, except for nominated MPs, and all MLAs within the legislative meeting in all states act as electors within the presidential ballot.

A complete of four,809 electors, comprising 776 MPs and four,033 elected MLAs, are entitled to vote within the election, however nominated MPs and MLAs, and Individuals of the Legislative Council don’t seem to be.

Over 99 in line with cent of the full electors had solid their poll within the ballot that happened Monday, in line with the Election Fee.

8 MPs, together with BJP MPs Sunny Deol and Sanjay Dhotre, had been amongst those that overlooked casting their votes.

Actor-politician Deol overlooked vote casting since he’s out of the country for clinical remedy, whilst Dhotre gave it a move since he used to be within the ICU.

Two MPs each and every from BJP and Shiv Sena, and one from the BSP, Congress, SP, and AIMIM overlooked vote casting within the Monday polls.

Kovind had turn out to be the President after polling 7,02,044 votes out of a complete of 10,69,358 votes, whilst his rival Meira Kumar polled handiest 3,67,314 votes.