New Delhi: India on Thursday will know who will succeed incumbent Ram Nath Kovind to turn into the nation’s fifteenth President, as counting of votes for the presidential election begins at 11am on the Parliament Home 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 packing containers from all states having reached the Parliament Home, ballot officers are prepared for the counting in room quantity 63, the strongroom of Parliament the place the packing containers are guarded behind a around the clock safety.
Rajya Sabha Secretary Common 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 temporary on the ballot developments 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 temporary as soon as extra on the ballot developments after votes of 20 states have been counted, after which lastly declare the consequence after the overall counting.
All poll packing containers from state assemblies had reached the Parliament’s strongroom on Tuesday night and have been locked there since. The poll packing containers had been flown into the nationwide capital as ‘Mr Poll Field’ from throughout the states.
‘Mr Poll Field’ got here seated within the entrance row of plane beneath the watchful gaze of the Assistant Returning Officers (AROs) of their respective states.
The Election Fee had on Monday posted pictures of the sealed poll packing containers onboard flights accompanied by AROs.
In line with the EC, every poll field was issued an e-ticket beneath the identify ‘Mr Poll Field’.
Polling for the presidential election was held between 10am to 5pm Monday at 31 places together with the Parliament home and 30 centres inside state legislative assemblies.
There are additionally studies of cross-voting in favour of Murmu in a variety of states. There isn’t any whip issued to members within the presidential ballot.
MPs of each, Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, besides nominated MPs, and all MLAs in 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 Legislative Council usually are not.
Over 99 per cent of the overall electors had forged their poll within the ballot that passed off Monday, based on the Election Fee. 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 remedy, whereas Dhotre gave it a move since he was within the ICU.
Two MPs every from BJP and Shiv Sena, and one every from the BSP, Congress, SP, and AIMIM missed voting within the Monday polls.Kovind had turn into 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.