Droupadi Murmu wins Presidential polls, likely to take oath on July 25

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NDA's candidate Droupadi Murmu on Thursday has won the presidential election defeating opposition's Yashwant Sinha. With this Murmu has become the first tribal person to be the president of India.

Murmu has crossed the 50% mark of total valid votes at the end of the third round of counting and is likely to take oath on July 25 as incumbent President Ram Nath Kovind's tenure ends on July 24.

For the third round, Droupadi Murmu got 812 votes, Yashwant Sinha 521 votes.

While Murmu received votes of 809 MLAs out of a total of 1138 MLAs in 10 states, with a vote count of 1,05,299, 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.

With each MP having a vote value of 700 in this presidential election, Murmu had a total vote value of 5,23,600 which is 72.19 per cent of the total valid vote count of MPs polled.

After the first round of counting, Murmu received 540 votes out of the 780 votes casted. Meanwhile, Opposition's Yashwant Sinha got 208 votes.

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.

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