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The NDA presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu on Thursday consolidated her lead after the second round of counting by getting nearly 72 per cent votes of the total votes of all MPs and MLAs of 10 states counted so far.
Murmu is inching towards victory and is set to cross the 50 percent-mark soon, as her vote value now reached 483,299, while her rival Yashwant Sinha’s vote value reached 189,876.
While Murmu received votes of 809 MLAs out of a total of 1138 MLAs in 10 states, with a vote count of 105,299, Sinha got votes of 329 MLAs with vote count of 44,276, in the second round.
Among the states where votes were counted include Andhra Pradesh, where Murmu received almost all the votes, besides Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisharh, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Jharkhand.
After the first round of counting, when votes of all members of both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha were counted, Murmu was leading with 540 of the 748 votes polled.
With each MP having a vote value of 700 in this presidential election, Murmu had a total vote value of 523,600 which is 72.19 per cent of the total valid vote count of MPs polled.
The Opposition nominee Yashwant Sinha had received 208 votes of MPs after the first round of counting, with a total vote value of 145,600, which is 27.81 per cent of the total valid votes polled, Returning Officer P C Mody said on Thursday.
If I include the earlier results of Parliament, the grand total so far is 1,886 valid votes valued at 6,73,175 out of which Droupadi Murmu gets 1,349 votes valued at 4,83,299. Yashwant Sinha gets 537 votes, valued at 1,89,876 so far: PC Mody, Secretary General, Rajya Sabha pic.twitter.com/Jw9qLheobl
— ANI (@ANI) July 21, 2022
Votes of 15 MPs were declared invalid, he said, adding that all the votes of MPs have been counted.
Eight MPs did not vote in the presidential election, Mody said.
Going by the strength of the parties which officially extended support to Murmu, she is estimated to have got votes of five to six more MPs. As many as 538 MPs of various parties had extended their support to Murmu ahead of the election, but a few of them did not vote.
(Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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