2022 Presidential Election Results LIVE: Vote counting begins at 11 a.m.; BJP plans Abhinandan Yatra – UK Time News

Presidential Election Results 2022 LIVE | The vote counting will take place in Chamber 63 of the Parliament of India, which is also the vault for the boxes that have arrived from all state capitals and Union Territories with legislatures.

A mega “Abhinandan Yatra” led by BJP chief JP Nadda and attended by thousands of leaders and workers is planned by the party after the vote count for the presidential poll on Thursday night, Delhi BJP leaders said, according to a PTIA report.

The vote count will begin at 11 a.m. and after the results are announced, the name of the country’s 15th president will be officially announced.

The results of the presidential election will be announced today. The elections were voted on July 18.

More than 4,000 MPs and MLAs cast their votes in the poll on July 18. The total turnout in parliament was 99.18 percent.

The ruling BJP-led NDA nominated former Jharkhand governor Droupadi Murmu, while the joint opposition fielded former Union minister Yashwant Sinha. Incumbent President Ram Nath Kovind’s term of office expires on July 24.

Who supports whom?

NDA’s Murmu has the support of Odisha’s ruling party Biju Janata Dal (BJD). The Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party (YSRCP), Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), Telugu Desam Party (TDP), Janata Dal (Secular), Shiromani Akali Dal, both factions of Shiv Sena and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) also support her.

Born and raised in Odisha, Murmu served as a minister in the state cabinet. If elected, she will become India’s first tribal president and the country’s second female president after Pratibha Patil.

Sinha had resigned from TMC before being nominated as an opposition candidate for the presidential election.

A former BJP leader, he served as a minister in the government of Atal Bihari Vajpayee. He is supported by Congress, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Aam Aadmi Party, Samajwadi Party and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD).

With input from agencies

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