TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ The elected representative of the Parliament and various state assemblies are voting to elect India’s next President today. Ruling National Democratic Alliance candidate Ram Nath Kovind has locked horns with opposition candidate Meira Kumar in the race to the country’s top constitutional post.
Voting is scheduled be held from 10 am to 5 pm. President Pranab Mukherjee’s term is expiring on July 25. In the last presidential election in 2012, Mukherjee had defeated P A Sangma and got over 69 per cent votes. Both Kovind and Kumar are from the Dalit community and have canvassed hard by visiting states to seek support of legislators.
PM Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah cast their votes in Parliament for the Presidential polls. The voting will take place in room number 62 inside Parliament House. Across the country there are 32 polling stations with ballot papers in the state’s official language and in English. For MPs, the ballot papers will be in English and Hindi.
Specially serial-numbered pens with violet ink have been supplied by the Election Commission to ensure that only the writing instrument issued by it is used by voters to mark their votes. Counting will take place on July 20. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya and Union Minister Uma Bharti were among those who cast their votes for the presidential poll. Andhra Pradesh CM NChandrababu Naidu cast his vote for the Presidential Poll in Amaravati.
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