Elections to choose the 15th President of India are being held today -- a race between NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu and the opposition's Yashwant Sinha
The counting of votes will be held on July 21 and the new President will take oath on July 25, under the schedule announced by the Election Commission.
The President is elected by the members of the Electoral College, comprising elected members of both houses of Parliament and legislative assemblies of all states as well as the National Capital Territory of Delhi and the Union Territory of Puducherry.
Here are the HIGHLIGHTS on the Presidential Election 2022:
The ballot boxes used for Monday's presidential election will start reaching the national capital from tonight and a majority of them would be at the Parliament House by Tuesday noon, officials said.
An Election Commission functionary said the ballot boxes from state capitals which have direct early morning flights for Delhi would reach here by Tuesday noon.
The ballot boxes from states which do not have direct flights will arrive by Tuesday evening.
Out of the total 60 MLAs of Tripura, 58 cast their vote in the Presidential election here on Monday, Speaker Ratan Chakraborty said.
Chief Minister Manik Saha, his deputy Jishnu Dev Verma, leader of opposition Manik Sarkar and others cast their vote in the lobby of the Assembly.
All 36 lawmakers of the BJP and seven out of the eight IPFT legislators voted in the polling which ended at 5 pm.
Delhi | Union Minister & BJP MP Dharmendra Pradhan casts his vote in the Parliament for the Presidential polls pic.twitter.com/kZ3fW7Bl7M
- ANI (@ANI) July 18, 2022
NCP MLA Kamlesh Singh on Monday took many in the political circle by surprise as he announced that he has voted for NDA presidential nominee Droupadi Murmu.
Mr Singh said he went by his "conscience call" while exercising his franchise.
According to Assembly sources, 50 of the state's 81 legislators cast their votes for the presidential elections in the Tribunal Hall of the House till 1 pm.
As many as 28 legislators of the NDA, including two of the All Jharkhand Students Union (AJSU) Party, reached the Assembly premises in a bus to exercise their franchise.
Droupadi Murmu, Yashwant Sinha: Manmohan Singh, In Wheelchair, Votes In Presidential ElectionFormer Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived in a wheelchair today to vote in the presidential election.
Even as the election is underway with 776 Members of Parliament and 4,033 MLAs voting to elect the 15th President of India, an Akali Dal MLA has broken away from the party's decision to back NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu.
"I am a Congress MLA but I have voted for NDA's Presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu. It's my personal decision as I've listened to my heart which guided me to do something for the soil...": Odisha Congress MLA Mohammed Moquim | reported by news agency ANI pic.twitter.com/VYewT46mNS
- NDTV (@ndtv) July 18, 2022
Congress' P Chidambaram, National Conference's Farooq Abdullah, SAD (Amritsar)'s Simranjit Singh Mann and AAP's Raghav Chadha cast their votes in the #PresidentialPolls. | reported by news agency ANI pic.twitter.com/EbYo2hvv6U
- NDTV (@ndtv) July 18, 2022
आज संसद में राष्ट्रपति पद के चुनाव में मतदान किया।
- Amit Shah (@AmitShah) July 18, 2022
NDA की प्रत्याशी के रूप में जनजातीय गौरव व नारी सशक्तिकरण की प्रतीक श्रीमती द्रोपदी मुर्मू जी के प्रति देशभर में जो उत्साह देखने को मिल रहा है वह बताता है कि देश के सर्वोच्च पद के लिए इस चुनाव में उनकी प्रचंड विजय सुनिश्चित है। pic.twitter.com/biiNG2IqrF
#PresidentialElection | NDA's Presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu expected to get more than 60 per cent of the total votes.
- NDTV (@ndtv) July 18, 2022
NDTV's Sanket Upadhyay explains pic.twitter.com/sY8YmVVcRd
#PresidentialElections | NDA's Presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu expected to get nearly 62 per cent of total votes.
- NDTV (@ndtv) July 18, 2022
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah cast his vote in the #PresidentialElections | reported by news agency ANI pic.twitter.com/CSj3IfzSPO
- NDTV (@ndtv) July 18, 2022
Voted in the 2022 Presidential elections. pic.twitter.com/HmrbCFodis
- Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) July 18, 2022
#PresidentialElection | Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh casts his vote in Presidential polls pic.twitter.com/MbO4oGPZS0
- NDTV (@ndtv) July 18, 2022
#PresidentialElection | Udhhav Thackeray and current Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena camps back NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu
- NDTV (@ndtv) July 18, 2022
NDTV' Saurabh Gupta reports pic.twitter.com/sY7BYsZFGt
#PresidentialElection | Election for 15th President of India
- NDTV (@ndtv) July 18, 2022
NDTV's Harsha Kumari Singh reports from NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu's house in Rairangpur, Odisha pic.twitter.com/tr5M5ark46
Voting for #PresidentialElections2022 begins in Parliament premises and state legislative assemblies. | reported by news agency ANI pic.twitter.com/FTn6sycgLv
- NDTV (@ndtv) July 18, 2022
