Droupadi Murmu’s tally boosted by cross-voting from Opposition members

By PTI

NEW DELHI: A sizeable variety of MLAs from throughout state assemblies cross-voted in assist of NDA’s Presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu, defying their events’ acknowledged assist to Opposition’s candidate Yashwant Sinha, sources mentioned on Thursday.

BJP sources mentioned round 125 MLAs from completely different assemblies cross-voted in her assist.

Counting of votes additionally means that Murmu was the beneficiary of cross-voting from 17 MPs.

Assam, Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh assemblies witnessed a big variety of Opposition MLAs voting for the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance’s candidate.

Around 22 MLAs in Assam and 20 in Madhya Pradesh assemblies are prone to have cross-voted.

Six opposition MLAs every from Bihar and Chhattisgarh, 4 from Goa and 10 from Gujarat might also have voted for Murmu.

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Murmu’s tribal background appeared to have drawn assist from Opposition MLAs from Jharkhand too, the place the ruling Jharkhand Mukti Morcha had already introduced assist for her.

India’s first tribal and likewise the youngest president, Murmu obtained most votes from Uttar Pradesh and Maharastra assemblies whereas Sinha received his largest share of assist from West Bengal and Tamil Nadu.

All MLAs from Andhra Pradesh, the place the ruling YSR Congress in addition to the Opposition TDP had pledged assist to Murmu, voted for her.

On the opposite hand, Sinha swept all votes from Kerala MLAs because the ruling Left and the opposition Congress had each supported him.

Murmu additionally obtained all of the votes from Sikkim and Nagaland assemblies.

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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma indicated concerning the cross-voting from opposition MLAs along with his tweet, “Droupadi Murmu polled 104 votes compared to NDA’s original strength of 79 in the 126 member Assam Assembly.2 absent. My heartfelt gratitude to the people of Assam for reposing their faith in the NDA’s Presidential candidate & wholeheartedly joining this historic moment.”

Murmu, 64, gained by an amazing margin in opposition to Sinha, receiving over 64 per cent legitimate votes forged by MPs and MLAs, comprising the electoral school, to succeed Ram Nath Kovid to change into the nation’s fifteenth president.

After the top of the counting course of that continued for greater than 10 hours, Returning Officer P C Mody declared Murmu because the winner and mentioned the worth of votes she received was 6,76,803 in opposition to Sinha’s 3,80,177.

NEW DELHI: A sizeable variety of MLAs from throughout state assemblies cross-voted in assist of NDA’s Presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu, defying their events’ acknowledged assist to Opposition’s candidate Yashwant Sinha, sources mentioned on Thursday.

BJP sources mentioned round 125 MLAs from completely different assemblies cross-voted in her assist.

Counting of votes additionally means that Murmu was the beneficiary of cross-voting from 17 MPs.

Assam, Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh assemblies witnessed a big variety of Opposition MLAs voting for the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance’s candidate.

Around 22 MLAs in Assam and 20 in Madhya Pradesh assemblies are prone to have cross-voted.

Six opposition MLAs every from Bihar and Chhattisgarh, 4 from Goa and 10 from Gujarat might also have voted for Murmu.

ALSO READ | In Droupadi Murmu, India will get its youngest and first president to be born after Independence

Murmu’s tribal background appeared to have drawn assist from Opposition MLAs from Jharkhand too, the place the ruling Jharkhand Mukti Morcha had already introduced assist for her.

India’s first tribal and likewise the youngest president, Murmu obtained most votes from Uttar Pradesh and Maharastra assemblies whereas Sinha received his largest share of assist from West Bengal and Tamil Nadu.

All MLAs from Andhra Pradesh, the place the ruling YSR Congress in addition to the Opposition TDP had pledged assist to Murmu, voted for her.

On the opposite hand, Sinha swept all votes from Kerala MLAs because the ruling Left and the opposition Congress had each supported him.

Murmu additionally obtained all of the votes from Sikkim and Nagaland assemblies.

VIEW PHOTO GALLERY | Droupadi Murmu turns into India’s first tribal President amid celebrations throughout nation

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma indicated concerning the cross-voting from opposition MLAs along with his tweet, “Droupadi Murmu polled 104 votes compared to NDA’s original strength of 79 in the 126 member Assam Assembly.2 absent. My heartfelt gratitude to the people of Assam for reposing their faith in the NDA’s Presidential candidate & wholeheartedly joining this historic moment.”

Murmu, 64, gained by an amazing margin in opposition to Sinha, receiving over 64 per cent legitimate votes forged by MPs and MLAs, comprising the electoral school, to succeed Ram Nath Kovid to change into the nation’s fifteenth president.

After the top of the counting course of that continued for greater than 10 hours, Returning Officer P C Mody declared Murmu because the winner and mentioned the worth of votes she received was 6,76,803 in opposition to Sinha’s 3,80,177.