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India's legislators queued up to pick the country's next President on 18 July.
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was seen in a wheelchair as he arrived at the Parliament to cast his vote. Officials helped the Congress veteran put his ballot paper into the box.
All eyes were on former Union minister Jayant Sinha. He is a BJP leader and Member of Parliament, but his father Yashwant Sinha is the Opposition candidate for the Presidential post.
In the states, Chief Ministers led the ballot process. In Droupadi Murmu's camp, Andhra Pradesh CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, Goa CM Pramod Sawant, Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde, Himachal CM Jairam Thakur, Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami, Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan, and Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik were seen voting.
In Yashwant Sinha's camp, Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot, and Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia were seen voting.
Counting of votes will take place on 21 July, and Murmu is expected to have a comfortable win.

President Election: Yashwant Sinha's son, a BJP MP, seen voting; ex-PM Manmohan Singh arrives in wheelchair

President election: former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was seen in a wheelchair as he arrived at the Parliament to cast his vote.

India's legislators queued up to pick the country's next President on 18 July.
Former Prime Minister <a href="https://www.editorji.com/elections/punjab-elections/punjab-elections-2022-bjp-in-power-since-7-years-but-still-blaming-nehru-says-manmohan-singh-1645095754231">Manmohan Singh</a> was seen in a wheelchair as he arrived at the Parliament to cast his vote. Officials helped the Congress veteran put his ballot paper into the box.
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All eyes were on former Union minister Jayant Sinha. He is a BJP leader and Member of Parliament, but his father Yashwant Sinha is the Opposition candidate for the Presidential post.
In the states, Chief Ministers led the ballot process. In <a href="https://www.editorji.com/india-news/presidential-poll-nda-s-droupadi-murmu-set-to-get-over-60-votes-1657868091535">Droupadi Murmu's</a> camp, Andhra Pradesh CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, Goa CM Pramod Sawant, Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde, Himachal CM Jairam Thakur, Uttarakhand CM<a href="https://www.editorji.com/story/pushkar-singh-dhami-becomes-youngest-uttarakhand-cm-pm-modi-congratulates-him-1625407387582"> Pushkar Singh</a> Dhami, Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan, and Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik were seen voting.
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In<a href="https://www.editorji.com/india-news/politics/presidential-polls-from-a-bjp-loyalist-to-a-fierce-critic-yashwant-sinha-s-political-journey-1657998753567"> Yashwant Sinha's</a> camp, Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot, and Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia were seen voting.
Counting of votes will take place on 21 July, and Murmu is expected to have a comfortable win.

With the Presidential election kicking off on 18 July, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was among the first to cast his vote.
As he walked along the corridor, he was handed a ballot paper and the special pen provided by the Election Commission specifically for voting. PM Modi was accompanied by BJP President JP Nadda and other Union ministers.
Inside the voting chamber, PM Modi filled details in the ballot paper in a separate enclosure. The Presidential election is held via secret ballot.
After filling in the ballot paper, PM Modi handed back the special pen and approached the ballot box. He posed for the cameras while dropping the voting paper inside the ballot box, and subsequently left.

Watch: PM Modi casts vote with special pen; among first MPs to vote in Presidential Election | Murmu vs Sinha

PM Modi was accompanied by BJP President JP Nadda and other Union ministers.

With the Presidential election kicking off on 18 July, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was among the first to cast his vote.
As he walked along the corridor, he was handed a ballot paper and the special pen provided by the Election Commission specifically for voting. PM Modi was accompanied by BJP President JP Nadda and other Union ministers.
Inside the voting chamber, PM Modi filled details in the ballot paper in a separate enclosure. The Presidential election is held via secret ballot.
After filling in the ballot paper, PM Modi handed back the special pen and approached the ballot box. He posed for the cameras while dropping the voting paper inside the ballot box, and subsequently left.
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Voting for the presidential poll ended on Monday with the 98.90 per cent of the electors permitted to vote in the parliament house exercising their franchise. 
Briefing reporters after the voting, Returning Officer PC Mody said out of 736 electors comprising 727 MPs and nine MLAs permitted by the Election Commission to vote at the Parliament house, 728 (719 MPs and nine MLAs) cast their votes.
Going by the stand taken by various parties and admission of cross-voting by MPs and MLAs, NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu is set to win the poll against joint Opposition nominee Yashwant Sinha.

President Elections 2022: 98.90% turnout at Parliament as voting ends

Voting for the presidential poll ended on Monday with the 98.90 per cent of the electors permitted to vote in the parliament house exercising their franchise. 

Going by the stand taken by various parties and admission of cross-voting by MPs and MLAs, NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu is set to win the poll

Voting for the presidential poll ended on Monday with the 98.90 per cent of the electors permitted to vote in the parliament house exercising their franchise.&nbsp;
Briefing reporters after the voting, Returning Officer PC Mody said out of 736 electors comprising 727 MPs and nine MLAs permitted by the Election Commission to vote at the Parliament house, 728 (719 MPs and nine MLAs) cast their votes.
Going by the stand taken by various parties and admission of cross-voting by MPs and MLAs, NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu is set to win the poll against joint Opposition nominee Yashwant Sinha.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi fired off a veiled jibe at the Opposition at the start of the Parliament's Monsoon Session on 18 July.
PM Modi said that the Monsoon Session is linked to the weather, and while rains have reached Delhi, it's still hot in the capital city. He added that it was not certain whether temperature inside the Parliament would also go down.
Referring to the Presidential election, PM Modi said that the current session is important as India will soon get the guidance of new President and Vice President.
With the Monsoon Session being held during the year-long 'Azadi ka Amrit Mohatsav' fest, PM Narendra Modi appealed to MPs to remember freedom fighters' dreams while working in Parliament.

PM Modi's 'andar ki garmi' jibe at Opposition as Monsoon Session starts

With the Monsoon Session being held during the year-long 'Azadi ka Amrit Mohatsav' fest, PM Narendra Modi appealed to MPs to remember freedom fighters' dreams while working in Parliament.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi fired off a veiled jibe at the Opposition at the start of the Parliament's Monsoon Session on 18 July.
PM Modi said that the Monsoon Session is linked to the weather, and while rains have reached Delhi, it's still hot in the capital city. He added that it was not certain whether temperature inside the Parliament would also go down.
Referring to the Presidential election, PM Modi said that the current session is important as India will soon get the guidance of new President and Vice President.
With the Monsoon Session being held during the year-long 'Azadi ka Amrit Mohatsav' fest, PM Narendra Modi appealed to MPs to remember freedom fighters' dreams while working in Parliament.

Former union minister Yashwant Sinha filed his nomination on Monday as the common opposition candidate against NDA nominee Droupadi Murmu for the July 18 presidential election, a contest described by his supporters as a “battle of ideologies”.
The 84-year-old, accompanied by his wife Nilima and flanked by leaders of at least 15 opposition parties including Rahul Gandhi, Sharad Pawar, Akhilesh Yadav, Farooq Abdullah and K T Rama Rao, submitted four sets of nomination papers to Rajya Sabha Secretary General P C Mody, who is the returning officer for the 16th presidential election.
The first set of nomination papers had Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge as proposers, while the second set had Trinamool Congress leader Sudeep Bandyopadhyay as a proposer.
The other two sets had DMK supremo Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav as proposers.
Each set of nomination papers was signed by 60 proposers and 60 seconders.
Sinha paid Rs 15,000 in cash as a security deposit for the presidential election.
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao announced his support to Sinha hours before he filed the nomination. Rao's son and senior minister K T Rama Rao led a delegation of party leaders to be by Sinha’s side in Parliament.
There was no representative from the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), which had endorsed Sinha’s candidature but was mulling backing Murmu, a tribal leader belonging to the Santhal community.
Leaders of the Shiv Sena too were not present as they were busy with the political crisis in the party's home turf Maharashtra.
After filing the nomination papers, Sinha and opposition leaders offered floral tributes at the statue of Mahatma Gandhi and B R Ambedkar on Parliament premises.
Addressing the media later, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi said all opposition parties were united in supporting Sinha’s candidature for the top Constitutional post.
“Of course, we support the individual, but the real fight is between two ideologies. One is the ideology of RSS, that of anger, hatred, and the other of compassion of all the opposition parties who are standing together,” Gandhi said.
Trinamool Congress leader Saugata Roy described Sinha as the best candidate to uphold the values enshrined in the Constitution.
“It is not a fight between two individuals only, it is a fight between two ideologies - between communalism and secularism, and authoritarianism versus democracy. I think under the circumstances, Yashwant Sinha is the best candidate,” Roy said while noting that he is a former IAS officer and a former union minister of Finance and External Affairs.
“On a person-to-person basis, Sinha is far better. All opposition parties are fully supporting him. The Congress, DMK, socialist parties and Left parties are supporting him. I think it is a rainbow-coloured coalition of best values,” the TMC leader said.
Sinha is likely to launch his campaign on Tuesday from Kerala followed by visits to Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Gujarat.
Top opposition leaders including Pawar, Gandhi, Kharge, Jairam Ramesh, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, TMC's Abhishek Banerjee and Saugata Roy, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, DMK's Tiruchi Siva and A Raja, former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah, CPI-M's Sitaram Yechury and CPI's D Raja were also present.
Rashtriya Lok Dal's Jayant Chaudhary, Rashtriya Janata Dal's Misa Bharti, Revolutionary Socialist Party's N K Premchandran and Indian Union Muslim League's Mohammed Bashir and NCP's Praful Patel were among the leaders who accompanied Sinha.
NDA nominee Droupadi Murmu filed her nomination papers last week.

Presidential polls | Will reach out to old BJP colleagues for support: Yashwant Sinha

Yashwant Sinha, the common opposition candidate for the presidential election, on Monday said he would reach out to his former colleagues in the BJP seeking their support.

The 84-year-old was accompanied by leaders of at least 15 opposition parties including Rahul Gandhi, Sharad Pawar, Akhilesh Yadav, Farooq Abdullah and K T Rama Rao

Yashwant Sinha, the common opposition candidate for the presidential election, on Monday said he would reach out to his former colleagues in the BJP seeking their support.
Addressing a press conference here, Sinha described the candidature of his rival NDA nominee Droupadi Murmu, a tribal, as part of "politics of symbolism" and insisted that he would contest the poll on the track record of the Modi government with regard to the welfare of backward communities.
Sinha, who filed his nomination for the July 18 election, hit out at the BJP saying that the saffron party under Prime Minister Narendra Modi lacked internal democracy.
"The BJP I was part of had internal democracy, the current BJP lacks internal democracy,&rdquo; he said.
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Sinha served as finance minister and external affairs minister in the government led by Atal Bihari Vajpayee. He had resigned from the BJP in 2018 and joined the Trinamool Congress in 2021. He quit the Trinamool Congress before his candidature was announced on June 21.
Sinha said he had reached out to Prime Minister Modi and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh for support.
The veteran leader questioned the track record of the Modi government with regard to the welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
"The current President also belongs to a particular community. Does it mean that the community has benefited," Sinha asked.
Sinha said the presidential election was a battle between the ideology of absolute power and that of freedom.

NDA presidential nominee Droupadi Murmu on Friday called up some key opposition leaders, including Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, NCP's Sharad Pawar and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, and sought their support for her candidature.
Sources said she called them up personally and spoke to them before filing her nomination for the July 18 presidential election.
All the three leaders expressed their best wishes to her, sources said.
Murmu filed her nomination on Friday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi handing over her set of papers to Returning Officer P C Mody. She was accompanied by a host of Union ministers, including Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh and Nitin Gadkari and BJP president J P Nadda.
Several chief ministers of BJP-ruled states including Yogi Adityanath, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Manohar Lal Khattar, Jairam Thakur, Pushkar Singh Dhami and leaders of some NDA supporting parties like YSRCP, BJD and AIADMK were also present during her nomination filing.

Presidential polls 2022: Droupadi Murmu Dailed these top Opposition leaders for support

Presidential polls 2022: Droupadi Murmu dialled these top Opposition leaders for support

Presidential polls 2022:  Droupadi Murmu dialled these top Opposition leaders for support

Sources said she called them up personally and spoke to them before filing her nomination for the July 18 presidential election.

NDA presidential nominee Droupadi Murmu on Friday called up some key opposition leaders, including Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, NCP's Sharad Pawar and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, and sought their support for her candidature.
Sources said she called them up personally and spoke to them before filing her nomination for the July 18 presidential election.
All the three leaders expressed their best wishes to her, sources said.
Murmu filed her nomination on Friday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi handing over her set of papers to Returning Officer P C Mody. She was accompanied by a host of Union ministers, including Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh and Nitin Gadkari and BJP president J P Nadda.
Several chief ministers of BJP-ruled states including Yogi Adityanath, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Manohar Lal Khattar, Jairam Thakur, Pushkar Singh Dhami and leaders of some NDA supporting parties like YSRCP, BJD and AIADMK were also present during her nomination filing.
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Who is Draupadi Murmu?: The ruling NDA’s Presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu Tuesday said she was optimistic of getting the support of all the MLAs and MPs from Odisha cutting across party lines as the daughter of the soil.

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A tribal leader-turned Governor who has worked her way to the top, Murmu said she was both surprised and delighted on learning on television that she had been nominated for the top job by the NDA.

Presidential Election 2022: The ruling NDA&rsquo;s Presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu Tuesday said she was optimistic of getting the support of all the MLAs and MPs from Odisha cutting across party lines as the daughter of the soil.
A tribal leader-turned Governor who has worked her way to the top, Murmu said she was both surprised and delighted on learning on television that she had been nominated for the top job by the NDA.
&ldquo;I am surprised as well as delighted. As a tribal woman from remote Mayurbhanj district, I had not thought about becoming the candidate for the top post,&rdquo; <a href="https://www.editorji.com/india-news/presidential-poll-all-you-need-to-know-about-droupadi-murmu-1655868596623" target="_blank">Droupadi&nbsp;Murmu</a> told reporters at her Rairangpur residence.
She said the NDA government has now proven BJP&rsquo;s slogan of &ldquo;Sab Ka Saath, Sab Ka Biswas,&rdquo; by selecting a tribal woman for the top post.
Asked whether she can get the support of BJD which holds over 2.8 per cent of votes in the electoral college for the forthcoming <a href="https://www.editorji.com/india-news/who-will-be-next-president-rumours-rife-on-this-name-among-political-circles-1655102549561" target="_blank">Presidential Elections</a>, Murmu said: &ldquo;I am optimistic of support from all members of the Odisha Legislative Assembly and MPs.&rdquo; She added, &ldquo;I am daughter of the soil. I have the rights to request all members to support me as an Odia.&rdquo; Born in the Santhal community, Murmu began her political career as a councillor in Rairangpur Nagar Panchayat in 1997 and rose through the ranks to become a minister in the BJD-BJP alliance government in 2000 and later the Governor of Jharkhand in 2015.
A two-term former MLA from Rairangpur, Murmu held on to her assembly seat in 2009 when the BJD had snapped ties with the BJP weeks ahead of the state elections which were swept by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik&rsquo;s party.
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She said, &ldquo;I was not expecting this opportunity. I was not attending any political programmes for more than six years after becoming the governor of the neighboring Jharkhand. I hope all will support me.&rdquo; As news broke of <a href="https://www.editorji.com/india-news/nda-names-ex-jharkhand-governor-draupadi-murmu-as-candidate-1655828086506" target="_blank">Droupadi&rsquo;s candidature for the Presidential post</a>, there was celebration across the state and especially in Mayurbhanj district, where she lives. People in large numbers, cutting across party lines, came to congratulate her.
Many Santhalese supporters gathered outside her house with their traditional musical instruments and sang and danced.
BJP MP from Bargarh, Suresh Pujari said, &ldquo;We are all overwhelmed over the party's decision to make a tribal woman from here the presidential candidate. This is the first time that a daughter of the soil will get the coveted post.&rdquo; Union Tribal Affairs Minister Bisheeswar Tudu said: &ldquo;I am especially happy as Murmu belongs to my Lok Sabha constituency and is also of my tribal community.&rdquo; Indications are that the BJP had consulted Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik before the party named Murmu for the top job and his BJD would be supporting her in the forthcoming election.

NDA names ex-Jharkhand governor Draupadi Murmu as candidate

NDA names ex-Jharkhand governor Draupadi Murmu as Presidential candidate

For the first time, preference has been given to a woman tribal candidate. We announce Draupadi Murmu as NDA's candidate for the upcoming Presidential elections: BJP chief JP Nadda

The BJP parliamentary board on Tuesday named Draupadi Murmu, a tribal leader of the party from Odisha, as the ruling NDA's candidate for the presidential election.
BJP president J P Nadda announced her name at a press conference following a meeting of the party top brass.
Murmu (64), a former Jharkhand governor, will be the first tribal woman to occupy the top constitutional post if she is elected, a strong possibility as numbers are stacked in the favour of the BJP-led NDA.
Opposition had earlier announced Yashwant Sinha as its joint candidate for the post. The poll is slated for July 18.
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Left leaders met NCP chief Sharad Pawar separately on Tuesday trying to convince the veteran leader to be the joint opposition nominee for the presidential election.
Pawar, however, refused, CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury said after his meeting with him.
Pawar met Yechury, CPI general secretary D Raja, and NCP leaders Praful Patel and P C Chacko in Delhi and conveyed to them his decision to not contest the election.
"I have been informed that Pawar will not be the opposition face for the presidential poll, other names are under consideration," said Yechury.
Opposition sources said Pawar was not keen to enter a battle which he is destined to lose at this point in his political career.
Banerjee is in Delhi for a meeting of non-BJP parties she has convened to formulate a joint strategy for the upcoming presidential poll.
Banerjee, the Trinamool Congress supremo, has convened the meeting on June 15 at the Constitution Club in the national capital for discussions to come out with a consensus opposition candidate.
The election of the President of India will be held on July 18.

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The voting to elect the next President of India will be held on July 18

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Left leaders met NCP chief Sharad Pawar separately on Tuesday trying to convince the veteran leader to be the joint opposition nominee for the presidential election.
Pawar, however, refused, CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury said after his meeting with him.
Pawar met Yechury, CPI general secretary D Raja, and NCP leaders Praful Patel and P C Chacko in Delhi and conveyed to them his decision to not contest the election.
"I have been informed that Pawar will not be the opposition face for the presidential poll, other names are under consideration," said Yechury.
Opposition sources said Pawar was not keen to enter a battle which he is destined to lose at this point in his political career.
Banerjee is in Delhi for a meeting of non-BJP parties she has convened to formulate a joint strategy for the upcoming presidential poll.
Banerjee, the Trinamool Congress supremo, has convened the meeting on June 15 at the Constitution Club in the national capital for discussions to come out with a consensus opposition candidate.
The election of the President of India will be held on July 18.
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President Election 2022: With the Presidential elections due next month, rumours are flaring up over one name or the other.


President Election 2022: Who will be next President? Rumours rife on this name among political circles

Who will be next President? Rumours rife on this name among political circles

BJP president J P Nadda and Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh have been given the job to hold talks with opposition parties including TMC and Congress on the polls.

With the Presidential elections due next month, rumours are flaring up over one name or the other. Amid the build-up to the elections, one name which is emerging from the opposition camp is that of NCP chief Sharad Pawar.
As per latest reports, Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi pushed Pawar's name as united Opposition's nominee for the post.
A report in the New Indian Express notes that&nbsp;Pawar was informed about Sonia's suggestion by senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge, who recently met him.
Pawar seems to be an unopposed candidate among the opposition with leaders of several parties including TMC, Shiv Sena and AAP urging the NCP&nbsp;chief to file nomination.
Pawar, however, is yet to take his call.
BJP president J P Nadda and Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh have been given the job to hold talks with opposition parties including TMC and Congress on the polls.
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Notably, Pawar shares a good relationship with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who had once referred to the Maratha leader as his political guru.

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