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  • Congress presidential polls: Counting of votes starts in Kharge vs Tharoor contest

    Through PTI

    NEW DELHI: The counting of votes started on Wednesday within the Congress presidential polls through which senior leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Shashi Tharoor confronted off for the put up of AICC leader.

    The counting of the votes, which used to be scheduled to start at 10 am on the AICC headquarters right here, began round 10:20 am.

    All sealed poll containers from the 68 polling cubicles arrange around the nation were introduced right here through Tuesday night and saved in a “sturdy room” on the birthday party place of business.

    Requested about experiences of lawsuits associated with polling in Uttar Pradesh and a few different states, Tharoor marketing campaign workforce member Salman Soz mentioned they’ve raised positive problems with the central election authority (CEA) and feature been in verbal exchange with CEA chairman Madhusudan Mistry “ahead of polling, on polling day and after that”.

    The counting brokers of Kharge are Pramod Tiwari, Kodikunil Suresh, Gaurav Gogoi, Syed Nasir Hussain, Kuljit Singh Bagra and Gurdeep Singh Sappal.

    Karti Chidambaram, Atul Chaturvedi and Sumedh Gaikwad are amongst those that are counting brokers of Tharoor.

    Whilst Kharge is thought of as the company favorite along with his perceived proximity to the Gandhis and a lot of senior leaders backing him, Tharoor has pitched himself because the candidate of alternate.

    Congress central election authority chairman Mistry has expressed pride with the birthday party’s presidential polls procedure, pronouncing it used to be “loose, truthful and clear”.

    He has additionally mentioned it used to be a secret poll and nobody would get to grasp who voted for whom.

    Of the full 9,915 Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) delegates that shaped the electoral faculty to select the birthday party leader in a secret poll, over 9,500 forged their poll at PCC places of work and the AICC headquarters, Mistry had mentioned at a press convention after the polling ended on Monday.

    The birthday party gets its first non-Gandhi president in 24 years after greater than 9,500 votes are counted.

    The polls are historical as the brand new president would change Sonia Gandhi, the longest-serving birthday party president who has been on the helm since 1998, barring the 2 years between 2017 and 2019 when Rahul Gandhi had taken over.

    Electors within the Congress presidential polls were requested to position a tick mark in opposition to their candidate within the poll paper after Tharoor’s workforce took up with the birthday party’s best ballot frame the problem of its previous directive that electorate write “1” to mirror their choice.

    This, the workforce mentioned, would possibly result in confusion.

    NEW DELHI: The counting of votes started on Wednesday within the Congress presidential polls through which senior leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Shashi Tharoor confronted off for the put up of AICC leader.

    The counting of the votes, which used to be scheduled to start at 10 am on the AICC headquarters right here, began round 10:20 am.

    All sealed poll containers from the 68 polling cubicles arrange around the nation were introduced right here through Tuesday night and saved in a “sturdy room” on the birthday party place of business.

    Requested about experiences of lawsuits associated with polling in Uttar Pradesh and a few different states, Tharoor marketing campaign workforce member Salman Soz mentioned they’ve raised positive problems with the central election authority (CEA) and feature been in verbal exchange with CEA chairman Madhusudan Mistry “ahead of polling, on polling day and after that”.

    The counting brokers of Kharge are Pramod Tiwari, Kodikunil Suresh, Gaurav Gogoi, Syed Nasir Hussain, Kuljit Singh Bagra and Gurdeep Singh Sappal.

    Karti Chidambaram, Atul Chaturvedi and Sumedh Gaikwad are amongst those that are counting brokers of Tharoor.

    Whilst Kharge is thought of as the company favorite along with his perceived proximity to the Gandhis and a lot of senior leaders backing him, Tharoor has pitched himself because the candidate of alternate.

    Congress central election authority chairman Mistry has expressed pride with the birthday party’s presidential polls procedure, pronouncing it used to be “loose, truthful and clear”.

    He has additionally mentioned it used to be a secret poll and nobody would get to grasp who voted for whom.

    Of the full 9,915 Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) delegates that shaped the electoral faculty to select the birthday party leader in a secret poll, over 9,500 forged their poll at PCC places of work and the AICC headquarters, Mistry had mentioned at a press convention after the polling ended on Monday.

    The birthday party gets its first non-Gandhi president in 24 years after greater than 9,500 votes are counted.

    The polls are historical as the brand new president would change Sonia Gandhi, the longest-serving birthday party president who has been on the helm since 1998, barring the 2 years between 2017 and 2019 when Rahul Gandhi had taken over.

    Electors within the Congress presidential polls were requested to position a tick mark in opposition to their candidate within the poll paper after Tharoor’s workforce took up with the birthday party’s best ballot frame the problem of its previous directive that electorate write “1” to mirror their choice.

    This, the workforce mentioned, would possibly result in confusion.

  • Congress management adopts carrot and stick coverage after Gehlot’s anti-Pilot rise up

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    The Congress management on Tuesday followed a carrot and stick coverage to influence Ashok Gehlot and his revolting loyalists to fall in keeping with the celebration’s prime command and surrender their all-out makes an attempt to prevent Sachin Pilot from turning into the Leader Minister.

    At the same time as senior celebration leaders had been roped in to coerce Leader Minister Gehlot to surrender and input the race for the celebration president’s publish, the celebration prime command girds up its loins to crack the whip on Gehlot loyalists’ and ministers Shanti Dhariwal and Mahesh Joshi. The 2 spearheaded the protest towards signing the answer authorising period in-between Congress president Sonia Gandhi to nominate a brand new Leader Minister after Gehlot information the nomination papers for the celebration presidential polls.

    It used to be Dhariwal who had referred to as the MLAs to his place of dwelling and averted them from assembly Maken and central observer Mallikarjun Kharge. Dhariwal had overtly accused Congress basic secretary answerable for Rajasthan Ajay Maken of seeking to convince MLAs to toughen Sachin Pilot. He mentioned Maken had include an schedule to put in Pilot who used to be thought to be a “traitor” via a majority of celebration MLAs on account of his previous bid to shape a central authority with the assistance of the BJP.

    But even so, motion may be most probably towards celebration’s leader whip within the state Mahesh Joshi who reportedly didn’t take some time to convey the MLAs in combination to fulfill the 2 central leaders.

    Senior leaders together with Ambika Soni are on a challenge to persuade Gehlot to soak up celebration presidency after relinquishing the Leader Minister’s publish, mentioned assets. He has been informed that the celebration management is able to put the unsavoury episodes that opened up in Jaipur at the back of and get on with the organisational elections. Celebration leaders in Delhi have now not misplaced hope of Gehlot acceding to the prime command’ needs.

    Gehlot isn’t averse to giving up leader ministership and coming into the presidential race. However he does now not need to quit price within the state to Pilot. He says he would quit the manager ministership to anybody from the 102 MLAs who had stayed unswerving to the celebration when Pilot had walked out, however now not the latter.

    Sonia Gandhi has requested the 2 central observers to put up a file at the Jaipur riot. Maken has already termed the conduct of celebration MLAs as indiscipline.

    The Congress management on Tuesday followed a carrot and stick coverage to influence Ashok Gehlot and his revolting loyalists to fall in keeping with the celebration’s prime command and surrender their all-out makes an attempt to prevent Sachin Pilot from turning into the Leader Minister.

    At the same time as senior celebration leaders had been roped in to coerce Leader Minister Gehlot to surrender and input the race for the celebration president’s publish, the celebration prime command girds up its loins to crack the whip on Gehlot loyalists’ and ministers Shanti Dhariwal and Mahesh Joshi. The 2 spearheaded the protest towards signing the answer authorising period in-between Congress president Sonia Gandhi to nominate a brand new Leader Minister after Gehlot information the nomination papers for the celebration presidential polls.

    It used to be Dhariwal who had referred to as the MLAs to his place of dwelling and averted them from assembly Maken and central observer Mallikarjun Kharge. Dhariwal had overtly accused Congress basic secretary answerable for Rajasthan Ajay Maken of seeking to convince MLAs to toughen Sachin Pilot. He mentioned Maken had include an schedule to put in Pilot who used to be thought to be a “traitor” via a majority of celebration MLAs on account of his previous bid to shape a central authority with the assistance of the BJP.

    But even so, motion may be most probably towards celebration’s leader whip within the state Mahesh Joshi who reportedly didn’t take some time to convey the MLAs in combination to fulfill the 2 central leaders.

    Senior leaders together with Ambika Soni are on a challenge to persuade Gehlot to soak up celebration presidency after relinquishing the Leader Minister’s publish, mentioned assets. He has been informed that the celebration management is able to put the unsavoury episodes that opened up in Jaipur at the back of and get on with the organisational elections. Celebration leaders in Delhi have now not misplaced hope of Gehlot acceding to the prime command’ needs.

    Gehlot isn’t averse to giving up leader ministership and coming into the presidential race. However he does now not need to quit price within the state to Pilot. He says he would quit the manager ministership to anybody from the 102 MLAs who had stayed unswerving to the celebration when Pilot had walked out, however now not the latter.

    Sonia Gandhi has requested the 2 central observers to put up a file at the Jaipur riot. Maken has already termed the conduct of celebration MLAs as indiscipline.

  • 21 gun salute, Santali saree for swearing-in: Droupadi Murmu to take oath as President on Monday

    Via PTI

    NEW DELHI: President-elect Droupadi Murmu will take oath of place of job of the perfect constitutional submit of the rustic on Monday adopted by way of a 21-gun salute.

    The Union House Ministry mentioned the rite will likely be held on the central corridor of Parliament at 10.15 AM on Monday the place Leader Justice of India N V Ramana will administer the oath of the place of job of the President to her.

    The President-elect will take the oath of place of job adopted by way of a 21-gun salute, the house ministry mentioned.

    The President will then ship an deal with.

    Prior to the rite, the outgoing President and the President-elect will arrive in Parliament in a ceremonial procession.

    Vice-President and Chairman of the Rajya Sabha M Venkaiah Naidu, High Minister Narendra Modi, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, Participants of the Council of Ministers, Governors, Leader Ministers, heads of diplomatic missions, Participants of Parliament and major civil and army officials of the federal government will attend the rite.

    At the conclusion of the rite within the central corridor of the Parliament, the President will depart for Rashtrapati Bhavan the place an inter-services guard of honour will likely be given to her within the forecourt and courtesies will likely be prolonged to the outgoing President.

    Murmu, 64, scripted historical past on Thursday after defeating Opposition Presidential candidate Yashwant Sinha in an one-sided contest.

    She would change into India’s first tribal President.

    Murmu received the election by way of an awesome margin in opposition to Sinha after receiving over 64 according to cent legitimate votes of MPs and MLAs, comprising the electoral faculty, to be successful Ram Nath Kovind to change into the rustic’s fifteenth president.

    Murmu were given 6,76,803 votes in opposition to Sinha’s 3,80,177 votes.

    She would be the first President to be born after independence and is the youngest to occupy the highest submit.

    She could also be the second one lady to change into the President.

    Murmu would possibly put on a standard Santali saree when she takes the oath of place of job in Delhi on Monday.

    Her sister-in-law Sukri Tudu is travelling to Delhi with a distinct saree utilized by Santal girls in Jap India.

    Sukri together with her husband Tarinisen Tudu on Saturday left for the nationwide capital to witness the oath-taking rite to be held on the Parliament’s central corridor.

    “I’m wearing a Santali conventional saree for `Didi’ (elder sister) and pray she is going to put on it all through the oath-taking. I’m really not certain what she is going to in fact put on at the instance. The Rashtrapati Bhawan will come to a decision the get dressed of the brand new president,” Sukri mentioned.

    The Santali sarees have some stripe paintings on one finish and is worn by way of the Santal girls on particular events.

    The saree is vertically symmetric and has each the ends designed with the similar motifs.

    Sukri, who together with her husband and members of the family, are living in Uparbeda village close to Rairangpur in Mayurbhanj district, mentioned she could also be wearing conventional candy pancakes, also referred to as ‘Arisa Pitha’ for Murmu.

    In the meantime, Murmu’s daughter Itishree, a financial institution officer and her husband Ganesh Hembram, have reached New Delhi and are staying with the President-elect.

    “Best 4 individuals of the President-elect’s circle of relatives – brother, sister-in-law, daughter and son-in-law – will attend the oath-taking rite,” mentioned a senior BJP chief including that the essence of ‘Adivasi’ tradition and custom might be mirrored within the swearing-in of the rustic’s fifteenth President.

    BJD president and Odisha Leader Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday left on a four-day excursion to the nationwide capital all through which he’s scheduled to wait Murmu’s swearing-in rite.

    With the exception of six BJP MLAs from the Mayurbhanj district, 3 individuals of the Ishwariya Prajapati Brahmakumari’s Rairangpur branch- Brahma Kumari Supriya, Brahma Kumari Basanti and Brahma Kumar Govind, have additionally reached New Delhi and met Murmu all through the day, resources mentioned.

    In the meantime, Union Ministers Ashwini Vaishnaw, Dharmendra Pradhan and Bisweswar Tudu, birthday party MPs Suresh Pujari, Basant Panda, Sangeeta kumara Singhdeo and her husband KV Singhdeo, met Murmu in New Delhi.

    They’re anticipated to be provide on the rite.

    Coming from a humble tribal circle of relatives of Uparbeda village close to Rairangpur, 64-year-old Murmu has come some distance from a councillor to an MLA, a minister and Jharkhand Governor to being elected President of India.

    There have been celebrations in all places within the state as ‘ladoos’ (sweetmeats) had been dispensed even on Saturday on the Bhubaneswar railway station.

    NEW DELHI: President-elect Droupadi Murmu will take oath of place of job of the perfect constitutional submit of the rustic on Monday adopted by way of a 21-gun salute.

    The Union House Ministry mentioned the rite will likely be held on the central corridor of Parliament at 10.15 AM on Monday the place Leader Justice of India N V Ramana will administer the oath of the place of job of the President to her.

    The President-elect will take the oath of place of job adopted by way of a 21-gun salute, the house ministry mentioned.

    The President will then ship an deal with.

    Prior to the rite, the outgoing President and the President-elect will arrive in Parliament in a ceremonial procession.

    Vice-President and Chairman of the Rajya Sabha M Venkaiah Naidu, High Minister Narendra Modi, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, Participants of the Council of Ministers, Governors, Leader Ministers, heads of diplomatic missions, Participants of Parliament and major civil and army officials of the federal government will attend the rite.

    At the conclusion of the rite within the central corridor of the Parliament, the President will depart for Rashtrapati Bhavan the place an inter-services guard of honour will likely be given to her within the forecourt and courtesies will likely be prolonged to the outgoing President.

    Murmu, 64, scripted historical past on Thursday after defeating Opposition Presidential candidate Yashwant Sinha in an one-sided contest.

    She would change into India’s first tribal President.

    Murmu received the election by way of an awesome margin in opposition to Sinha after receiving over 64 according to cent legitimate votes of MPs and MLAs, comprising the electoral faculty, to be successful Ram Nath Kovind to change into the rustic’s fifteenth president.

    Murmu were given 6,76,803 votes in opposition to Sinha’s 3,80,177 votes.

    She would be the first President to be born after independence and is the youngest to occupy the highest submit.

    She could also be the second one lady to change into the President.

    Murmu would possibly put on a standard Santali saree when she takes the oath of place of job in Delhi on Monday.

    Her sister-in-law Sukri Tudu is travelling to Delhi with a distinct saree utilized by Santal girls in Jap India.

    Sukri together with her husband Tarinisen Tudu on Saturday left for the nationwide capital to witness the oath-taking rite to be held on the Parliament’s central corridor.

    “I’m wearing a Santali conventional saree for `Didi’ (elder sister) and pray she is going to put on it all through the oath-taking. I’m really not certain what she is going to in fact put on at the instance. The Rashtrapati Bhawan will come to a decision the get dressed of the brand new president,” Sukri mentioned.

    The Santali sarees have some stripe paintings on one finish and is worn by way of the Santal girls on particular events.

    The saree is vertically symmetric and has each the ends designed with the similar motifs.

    Sukri, who together with her husband and members of the family, are living in Uparbeda village close to Rairangpur in Mayurbhanj district, mentioned she could also be wearing conventional candy pancakes, also referred to as ‘Arisa Pitha’ for Murmu.

    In the meantime, Murmu’s daughter Itishree, a financial institution officer and her husband Ganesh Hembram, have reached New Delhi and are staying with the President-elect.

    “Best 4 individuals of the President-elect’s circle of relatives – brother, sister-in-law, daughter and son-in-law – will attend the oath-taking rite,” mentioned a senior BJP chief including that the essence of ‘Adivasi’ tradition and custom might be mirrored within the swearing-in of the rustic’s fifteenth President.

    BJD president and Odisha Leader Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday left on a four-day excursion to the nationwide capital all through which he’s scheduled to wait Murmu’s swearing-in rite.

    With the exception of six BJP MLAs from the Mayurbhanj district, 3 individuals of the Ishwariya Prajapati Brahmakumari’s Rairangpur branch- Brahma Kumari Supriya, Brahma Kumari Basanti and Brahma Kumar Govind, have additionally reached New Delhi and met Murmu all through the day, resources mentioned.

    In the meantime, Union Ministers Ashwini Vaishnaw, Dharmendra Pradhan and Bisweswar Tudu, birthday party MPs Suresh Pujari, Basant Panda, Sangeeta kumara Singhdeo and her husband KV Singhdeo, met Murmu in New Delhi.

    They’re anticipated to be provide on the rite.

    Coming from a humble tribal circle of relatives of Uparbeda village close to Rairangpur, 64-year-old Murmu has come some distance from a councillor to an MLA, a minister and Jharkhand Governor to being elected President of India.

    There have been celebrations in all places within the state as ‘ladoos’ (sweetmeats) had been dispensed even on Saturday on the Bhubaneswar railway station.

  • Who shall be India’s fifteenth President? Nation to understand on Thursday as counting starts at 11 am

    Through PTI

    NEW DELHI: India on Thursday will know who will be triumphant incumbent Ram Nath Kovind to turn out to be the rustic’s fifteenth President, as counting of votes for the presidential election starts at 11 am on the Parliament Space right here.

    Ruling NDA’s Droupadi Murmu and Opposition’s Yashwant Sinha are pitted in opposition to each and every different within the contest, with votes obviously stacked in favour of Murmu, who, if elected, would be the first tribal lady to occupy the highest constitutional submit within the nation.

    Kovind’s tenure is finishing on July 24 and the brand new president will take oath on July 25.

    With poll packing containers from all states had reached the Parliament Space, ballot officers are in a position for the counting in room quantity 63, the strongroom of Parliament the place the packing containers are guarded at the back of round the clock safety.

    Rajya Sabha Secretary Basic P C Mody, who’s the Leader Returning Officer for the ballot, will oversee the counting Thursday, the results of which is perhaps declared by way of the night.

    Mody will first transient at the ballot traits finally votes of MPs were counted, and on the other hand after votes of 10 states in alphabetical order were counted.

    Assets mentioned he’s going to transient all over again at the ballot traits after votes of 20 states were counted, after which in any case claim the end result after the full counting.

    All poll packing containers from state assemblies had reached the Parliament’s strongroom on Tuesday night and feature been locked there since.

    The poll packing containers were flown into the nationwide capital as ‘Mr Poll Field’ from around the states.

    ‘Mr Poll Field’ got here seated within the entrance row of plane below the watchful gaze of the Assistant Returning Officials (AROs) in their respective states.

    The Election Fee had on Monday posted images of the sealed poll packing containers onboard flights accompanied by way of AROs.

    Consistent with the EC, each and every poll field used to be issued an e-ticket below the identify ‘Mr Poll Field’.

    Polling for the presidential election used to be held between 10 am to five pm Monday at 31 places together with the Parliament Space and 30 centres inside of state legislative assemblies.

    There also are reviews of cross-voting in favour of Murmu in various states.

    There is not any whip issued to individuals within the presidential ballot.

    MPs of each, Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, except for nominated MPs, and all MLAs within the legislative meeting in all states act as electors within the presidential ballot.

    A complete of four,809 electors, comprising 776 MPs and four,033 elected MLAs, are entitled to vote within the election, however nominated MPs and MLAs, and Individuals of the Legislative Council don’t seem to be.

    Over 99 in line with cent of the full electors had solid their poll within the ballot that happened Monday, in line with the Election Fee.

    8 MPs, together with BJP MPs Sunny Deol and Sanjay Dhotre, had been amongst those that overlooked casting their votes.

    Actor-politician Deol overlooked vote casting since he’s out of the country for clinical remedy, whilst Dhotre gave it a move since he used to be within the ICU.

    Two MPs each and every from BJP and Shiv Sena, and one from the BSP, Congress, SP, and AIMIM overlooked vote casting within the Monday polls.

    Kovind had turn out to be the President after polling 7,02,044 votes out of a complete of 10,69,358 votes, whilst his rival Meira Kumar polled handiest 3,67,314 votes.

    NEW DELHI: India on Thursday will know who will be triumphant incumbent Ram Nath Kovind to turn out to be the rustic’s fifteenth President, as counting of votes for the presidential election starts at 11 am on the Parliament Space right here.

    Ruling NDA’s Droupadi Murmu and Opposition’s Yashwant Sinha are pitted in opposition to each and every different within the contest, with votes obviously stacked in favour of Murmu, who, if elected, would be the first tribal lady to occupy the highest constitutional submit within the nation.

    Kovind’s tenure is finishing on July 24 and the brand new president will take oath on July 25.

    With poll packing containers from all states had reached the Parliament Space, ballot officers are in a position for the counting in room quantity 63, the strongroom of Parliament the place the packing containers are guarded at the back of round the clock safety.

    Rajya Sabha Secretary Basic P C Mody, who’s the Leader Returning Officer for the ballot, will oversee the counting Thursday, the results of which is perhaps declared by way of the night.

    Mody will first transient at the ballot traits finally votes of MPs were counted, and on the other hand after votes of 10 states in alphabetical order were counted.

    Assets mentioned he’s going to transient all over again at the ballot traits after votes of 20 states were counted, after which in any case claim the end result after the full counting.

    All poll packing containers from state assemblies had reached the Parliament’s strongroom on Tuesday night and feature been locked there since.

    The poll packing containers were flown into the nationwide capital as ‘Mr Poll Field’ from around the states.

    ‘Mr Poll Field’ got here seated within the entrance row of plane below the watchful gaze of the Assistant Returning Officials (AROs) in their respective states.

    The Election Fee had on Monday posted images of the sealed poll packing containers onboard flights accompanied by way of AROs.

    Consistent with the EC, each and every poll field used to be issued an e-ticket below the identify ‘Mr Poll Field’.

    Polling for the presidential election used to be held between 10 am to five pm Monday at 31 places together with the Parliament Space and 30 centres inside of state legislative assemblies.

    There also are reviews of cross-voting in favour of Murmu in various states.

    There is not any whip issued to individuals within the presidential ballot.

    MPs of each, Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, except for nominated MPs, and all MLAs within the legislative meeting in all states act as electors within the presidential ballot.

    A complete of four,809 electors, comprising 776 MPs and four,033 elected MLAs, are entitled to vote within the election, however nominated MPs and MLAs, and Individuals of the Legislative Council don’t seem to be.

    Over 99 in line with cent of the full electors had solid their poll within the ballot that happened Monday, in line with the Election Fee.

    8 MPs, together with BJP MPs Sunny Deol and Sanjay Dhotre, had been amongst those that overlooked casting their votes.

    Actor-politician Deol overlooked vote casting since he’s out of the country for clinical remedy, whilst Dhotre gave it a move since he used to be within the ICU.

    Two MPs each and every from BJP and Shiv Sena, and one from the BSP, Congress, SP, and AIMIM overlooked vote casting within the Monday polls.

    Kovind had turn out to be the President after polling 7,02,044 votes out of a complete of 10,69,358 votes, whilst his rival Meira Kumar polled handiest 3,67,314 votes.

  • Presidential polls: Voted in step with my sense of right and wrong, says rebellion Congress MLA Kuldeep Bishnoi

    Via PTI

    CHANDIGARH/NEW DELHI: Haryana Congress MLA Kuldeep Bishnoi, who cross-voted in ultimate month’s Rajya Sabha polls, on Monday stated he has voted in step with his sense of right and wrong within the presidential election too.

    Indicating that he supported NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu relatively than the opposition’s Yashwant Sinha, Bishnoi stated in Delhi, “Like in Rajya Sabha, I’ve solid my vote on this election too as in step with my sense of right and wrong”.

    When journalists requested about his long term plan of action, he stated, “I can disclose that quickly.”

    “The Congress is now not the social gathering because it used to be all through Indira ji or Rajiv ji’s time,” he stated, claiming that commonplace employees or even senior “do not get that appreciate within the Congress now”.

    He stated Congress leaders, with whom he has non-public family members, stay telling him that he must now not depart the social gathering.

    Sooner than the Rajya Sabha polls too, Bishnoi, the more youthful son of former Haryana leader minister Bhajan Lal, had stated he would cross through his sense of right and wrong.

    The device of secret poll is adopted within the presidential election, and events can’t factor whips to their MPs and MLAs.

    Whilst different Haryana MLAs have been exercising their franchise on the Vidhan Sabha advanced in Chandigarh, Bishnoi had sought permission to solid his vote at Parliament Area.

    The 53-year-old legislator from Adampur had met Union House Minister Amit Shah and BJP leader J P Nadda in New Delhi not too long ago and later heaped praises on them.

    Bishnoi, a four-time MLA and a two-time MP, has been sulking ever for the reason that Congress overlooked him for the submit of its Haryana unit leader all through a revamp previous this yr.

    The social gathering appointed Udai Bhan, a loyalist of former leader minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, as its Haryana president.

    Bishnoi used to be expelled from all social gathering positions on June 11 for now not following the social gathering line within the Rajya Sabha elections.

    “The Congress additionally has laws for some leaders and exceptions for others. Laws are implemented selectively. Indiscipline has been many times overlooked up to now. In my case, I listened to my soul and acted on my morals,” he had then tweeted in reaction.

    Final month, Bishnoi stated he used to be consulting his supporters to make a decision his subsequent plan of action.

    Previous, the Adampur MLA and a distinguished non-Jat face in Haryana, Bishnoi had batted for selling younger faces with a “mass base” to give a boost to the social gathering.

    He had previous described Jyotiraditya Scindia’s go out from the social gathering as a large blow and stated there are lots of faithful leaders around the nation who really feel “alienated, wasted and discontented”.

    Within the contemporary Rajya Sabha election, the Congress, which is the primary opposition social gathering in Haryana, used to be confident of 1 seat through distinctive feature of the choice of MLAs it has within the 90-member meeting.

    Alternatively, Congress candidate Ajay Maken didn’t protected the berth after Bishnoi cross-voted, whilst some other MLA’s vote used to be declared invalid.

    BJP’s Krishan Lal Panwar and the saffron party-backed Unbiased candidate Kartikeya Sharma have been elected to the 2 Rajya Sabha seats from Haryana for which the election used to be held ultimate month.

    CHANDIGARH/NEW DELHI: Haryana Congress MLA Kuldeep Bishnoi, who cross-voted in ultimate month’s Rajya Sabha polls, on Monday stated he has voted in step with his sense of right and wrong within the presidential election too.

    Indicating that he supported NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu relatively than the opposition’s Yashwant Sinha, Bishnoi stated in Delhi, “Like in Rajya Sabha, I’ve solid my vote on this election too as in step with my sense of right and wrong”.

    When journalists requested about his long term plan of action, he stated, “I can disclose that quickly.”

    “The Congress is now not the social gathering because it used to be all through Indira ji or Rajiv ji’s time,” he stated, claiming that commonplace employees or even senior “do not get that appreciate within the Congress now”.

    He stated Congress leaders, with whom he has non-public family members, stay telling him that he must now not depart the social gathering.

    Sooner than the Rajya Sabha polls too, Bishnoi, the more youthful son of former Haryana leader minister Bhajan Lal, had stated he would cross through his sense of right and wrong.

    The device of secret poll is adopted within the presidential election, and events can’t factor whips to their MPs and MLAs.

    Whilst different Haryana MLAs have been exercising their franchise on the Vidhan Sabha advanced in Chandigarh, Bishnoi had sought permission to solid his vote at Parliament Area.

    The 53-year-old legislator from Adampur had met Union House Minister Amit Shah and BJP leader J P Nadda in New Delhi not too long ago and later heaped praises on them.

    Bishnoi, a four-time MLA and a two-time MP, has been sulking ever for the reason that Congress overlooked him for the submit of its Haryana unit leader all through a revamp previous this yr.

    The social gathering appointed Udai Bhan, a loyalist of former leader minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, as its Haryana president.

    Bishnoi used to be expelled from all social gathering positions on June 11 for now not following the social gathering line within the Rajya Sabha elections.

    “The Congress additionally has laws for some leaders and exceptions for others. Laws are implemented selectively. Indiscipline has been many times overlooked up to now. In my case, I listened to my soul and acted on my morals,” he had then tweeted in reaction.

    Final month, Bishnoi stated he used to be consulting his supporters to make a decision his subsequent plan of action.

    Previous, the Adampur MLA and a distinguished non-Jat face in Haryana, Bishnoi had batted for selling younger faces with a “mass base” to give a boost to the social gathering.

    He had previous described Jyotiraditya Scindia’s go out from the social gathering as a large blow and stated there are lots of faithful leaders around the nation who really feel “alienated, wasted and discontented”.

    Within the contemporary Rajya Sabha election, the Congress, which is the primary opposition social gathering in Haryana, used to be confident of 1 seat through distinctive feature of the choice of MLAs it has within the 90-member meeting.

    Alternatively, Congress candidate Ajay Maken didn’t protected the berth after Bishnoi cross-voted, whilst some other MLA’s vote used to be declared invalid.

    BJP’s Krishan Lal Panwar and the saffron party-backed Unbiased candidate Kartikeya Sharma have been elected to the 2 Rajya Sabha seats from Haryana for which the election used to be held ultimate month.

  • ‘Listened to sense of right and wrong’: NCP MLAs in Jharkhand, Gujarat bask in cross-voting in Presidential elections

    By way of PTI

    RANCHI: NCP MLA Kamlesh Singh on Monday took many in political circles through wonder when he introduced that he voted for NDA presidential nominee Droupadi Murmu.

    Murmu, an ex-governor of Jharkhand, is up towards former Hazaribag MP Yashwant Sinha, the joint candidate of non-BJP events, together with the Congress, the TMC and the NCP.

    Singh mentioned he went through his “sense of right and wrong name” whilst exercising his franchise.

    “Some issues in lifestyles must be carried out based on our sense of right and wrong name. I’ve taken this resolution within the hobby of Jharkhand. She (Murmu) has been a governor of this state and we all know her behavior,”” the NCP MLA said.

    Hypothesis was once rife that a number of Congress MLAs have additionally cross-voted, however the birthday celebration’s state unit resident Rajesh Thakur rubbished the conjectures.

    “BJP MLAs may have voted for the opposition candidate.

    Congress legislators would by no means accomplish that,” he claimed.

    Balloting for the presidential ballot started at 10 am persisted until 5 pm.

    Jharkhand Leader Electoral Officer Okay Ravi Kumar mentioned polling for the presidential elections was once held peacefully.

    80 out of 81 citizens exercised their franchise right here.

    BJP’s in poor health Sindri MLA, Indrajeet Mahto may no longer forged his vote as he’s present process remedy in sanatorium.

    “Poll bins were sealed. Those can be despatched to Delhi on July 19,” he mentioned.

    No MP from the state forged their votes right here, Kumar said, including that the 20 parliamentarians had been scheduled to workout their franchise in Delhi.

    Each Murmu and Sinha had visited Jharkhand to hunt beef up.

    The ruling JMM, which runs a coalition executive within the state with the Congress and the RJD, had to start with sponsored Sinha most effective to obtain flak from the tribal group to which each Murmu and the birthday celebration’s govt president and Leader Minister Hemant Soren belong.

    The birthday celebration then pledged beef up for the NDA nominee.

    Soren mentioned legislators of his birthday celebration have voted in step with the verdict taken.

    “You might be conscious about the birthday celebration’s resolution. Legislators and parliamentarians have voted accordingly,” Soren instructed newshounds.

    JMM chief and state schooling minister Jagarnath Mahto mentioned he adopted his birthday celebration’s instructions whilst any other MLA Nalin Soren asserted that he “listened to his center”, with out divulging any longer element.

    As many as 28 legislators of the NDA, together with two of the All Jharkhand Scholars Union (AJSU) Birthday celebration, reached the Meeting premises in a bus right through the day to workout their franchise.

    The MLAs, underneath the management of former leader minister Babulal Marandi and AJSU Birthday celebration leader Sudesh Mahto, confirmed victory indicators, as a few of them mentioned they had been elated over the truth that Murmu, a tribal lady, was once set to get increased to the highest constitutional put up in a primary.

    “NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu gets the beef up of no less than 65 legislators in Jharkhand underneath any circumstance as many Congress legislators also are going to hear their sense of right and wrong and vote for her,” BJP MLA Biranchi Narayan claimed.

    BJP legislators Anant Ojha and Bhanu Pratap Shahi had been a number of the early ones to workout the franchise.

    “I used to be the primary one to vote to elect the primary citizen. This is a topic of serious satisfaction for me,” Ojha mentioned.

    Shahi mentioned, “We strongly imagine Murmu will paintings for the betterment of the society together with the deficient, downtrodden and Dalits.

    ”Within the 81-member Space, the ruling JMM-Congress-RJD alliance has a blended energy of 48, with the Shibu Soren-founded birthday celebration on my own having 30 seats in its kitty.

    The BJP has 26 legislators together with Babulal Marandi, the previous JVM-P leader who joined the saffron camp after the 2019 meeting elections.

    The vote worth of every MP is 700 around the nation.

    MLAs in Jharkhand have a vote worth of 176 every.

    The JMM has 3 MPs within the state, the BJP 14, the Congress two and the AJSU Birthday celebration one.

    Murmu, having secured the beef up of the JMM, is anticipated to garner a ranking of twenty-two,808 within the state and Sinha 4,392, with the backing of the Congress and the RJD.

    MLA in Gujarat, Kandhal Jadeja, on Monday mentioned he voted for Murmu.

    Significantly, political events can not factor whip to their MLAs and MPs within the presidential ballot.

    After balloting within the Meeting complicated right here for the presidential election, Jadeja in a video observation mentioned, “I forged my vote for the BJP candidate.”

    The opposition has fielded former Union minister Yashwant Sinha towards NDA nominee Murmu.

    The Sharad Pawar-headed NCP is without doubt one of the constituents of the Congress-led opposition bloc within the nation.

    In 2020, the NCP had issued a display reason realize was once issued through the NCP to Jadeja, the lone birthday celebration MLA in Gujarat from Kutiyana seat in Porbandar, for defying the whip and cross-voting within the Rajya Sabha polls.

    Jadeja had defied the birthday celebration whip and voted for BJP applicants as a substitute of the Congress within the Rajya Sabha polls from Gujarat in 2017 and 2020.

    Balloting to elect the rustic’s fifteenth president was once underway within the Gujarat Meeting complicated in Gandhinagar from 10 am on Monday and can proceed until 5 pm.

    Gujarat Leader Minister Bhupendra Patel, Speaker Nimaben Acharya, former CM Vijay Rupani, ex-Deputy CM Nitin Patel and Chief of Opposition Sukhram Rathva had been amongst those that forged their votes.

    RANCHI: NCP MLA Kamlesh Singh on Monday took many in political circles through wonder when he introduced that he voted for NDA presidential nominee Droupadi Murmu.

    Murmu, an ex-governor of Jharkhand, is up towards former Hazaribag MP Yashwant Sinha, the joint candidate of non-BJP events, together with the Congress, the TMC and the NCP.

    Singh mentioned he went through his “sense of right and wrong name” whilst exercising his franchise.

    “Some issues in lifestyles must be carried out based on our sense of right and wrong name. I’ve taken this resolution within the hobby of Jharkhand. She (Murmu) has been a governor of this state and we all know her behavior,”” the NCP MLA said.

    Hypothesis was once rife that a number of Congress MLAs have additionally cross-voted, however the birthday celebration’s state unit resident Rajesh Thakur rubbished the conjectures.

    “BJP MLAs may have voted for the opposition candidate.

    Congress legislators would by no means accomplish that,” he claimed.

    Balloting for the presidential ballot started at 10 am persisted until 5 pm.

    Jharkhand Leader Electoral Officer Okay Ravi Kumar mentioned polling for the presidential elections was once held peacefully.

    80 out of 81 citizens exercised their franchise right here.

    BJP’s in poor health Sindri MLA, Indrajeet Mahto may no longer forged his vote as he’s present process remedy in sanatorium.

    “Poll bins were sealed. Those can be despatched to Delhi on July 19,” he mentioned.

    No MP from the state forged their votes right here, Kumar said, including that the 20 parliamentarians had been scheduled to workout their franchise in Delhi.

    Each Murmu and Sinha had visited Jharkhand to hunt beef up.

    The ruling JMM, which runs a coalition executive within the state with the Congress and the RJD, had to start with sponsored Sinha most effective to obtain flak from the tribal group to which each Murmu and the birthday celebration’s govt president and Leader Minister Hemant Soren belong.

    The birthday celebration then pledged beef up for the NDA nominee.

    Soren mentioned legislators of his birthday celebration have voted in step with the verdict taken.

    “You might be conscious about the birthday celebration’s resolution. Legislators and parliamentarians have voted accordingly,” Soren instructed newshounds.

    JMM chief and state schooling minister Jagarnath Mahto mentioned he adopted his birthday celebration’s instructions whilst any other MLA Nalin Soren asserted that he “listened to his center”, with out divulging any longer element.

    As many as 28 legislators of the NDA, together with two of the All Jharkhand Scholars Union (AJSU) Birthday celebration, reached the Meeting premises in a bus right through the day to workout their franchise.

    The MLAs, underneath the management of former leader minister Babulal Marandi and AJSU Birthday celebration leader Sudesh Mahto, confirmed victory indicators, as a few of them mentioned they had been elated over the truth that Murmu, a tribal lady, was once set to get increased to the highest constitutional put up in a primary.

    “NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu gets the beef up of no less than 65 legislators in Jharkhand underneath any circumstance as many Congress legislators also are going to hear their sense of right and wrong and vote for her,” BJP MLA Biranchi Narayan claimed.

    BJP legislators Anant Ojha and Bhanu Pratap Shahi had been a number of the early ones to workout the franchise.

    “I used to be the primary one to vote to elect the primary citizen. This is a topic of serious satisfaction for me,” Ojha mentioned.

    Shahi mentioned, “We strongly imagine Murmu will paintings for the betterment of the society together with the deficient, downtrodden and Dalits.

    ”Within the 81-member Space, the ruling JMM-Congress-RJD alliance has a blended energy of 48, with the Shibu Soren-founded birthday celebration on my own having 30 seats in its kitty.

    The BJP has 26 legislators together with Babulal Marandi, the previous JVM-P leader who joined the saffron camp after the 2019 meeting elections.

    The vote worth of every MP is 700 around the nation.

    MLAs in Jharkhand have a vote worth of 176 every.

    The JMM has 3 MPs within the state, the BJP 14, the Congress two and the AJSU Birthday celebration one.

    Murmu, having secured the beef up of the JMM, is anticipated to garner a ranking of twenty-two,808 within the state and Sinha 4,392, with the backing of the Congress and the RJD.

    MLA in Gujarat, Kandhal Jadeja, on Monday mentioned he voted for Murmu.

    Significantly, political events can not factor whip to their MLAs and MPs within the presidential ballot.

    After balloting within the Meeting complicated right here for the presidential election, Jadeja in a video observation mentioned, “I forged my vote for the BJP candidate.”

    The opposition has fielded former Union minister Yashwant Sinha towards NDA nominee Murmu.

    The Sharad Pawar-headed NCP is without doubt one of the constituents of the Congress-led opposition bloc within the nation.

    In 2020, the NCP had issued a display reason realize was once issued through the NCP to Jadeja, the lone birthday celebration MLA in Gujarat from Kutiyana seat in Porbandar, for defying the whip and cross-voting within the Rajya Sabha polls.

    Jadeja had defied the birthday celebration whip and voted for BJP applicants as a substitute of the Congress within the Rajya Sabha polls from Gujarat in 2017 and 2020.

    Balloting to elect the rustic’s fifteenth president was once underway within the Gujarat Meeting complicated in Gandhinagar from 10 am on Monday and can proceed until 5 pm.

    Gujarat Leader Minister Bhupendra Patel, Speaker Nimaben Acharya, former CM Vijay Rupani, ex-Deputy CM Nitin Patel and Chief of Opposition Sukhram Rathva had been amongst those that forged their votes.

  • Balloting concludes in presidential election, general turnout at Parliament 98.90 consistent with cent

    Through PTI

    NEW DELHI: Balloting for the presidential ballot ended on Monday with 98.90 consistent with cent of the electors authorized to vote within the parliament area exercising their franchise, Returning Officer PC Mody mentioned.

    Top Minister Narendra Modi, House Minister Amit Shah and Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi forged their votes on the parliament area. Balloting additionally happened in state assemblies around the nation.

    Going by means of the stand taken by means of more than a few events, NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu is ready to win the ballot in opposition to joint Opposition nominee Yashwant Sinha.

    Briefing newshounds after the balloting, Returning Officer Mody mentioned out of 736 electors comprising 727 MPs and 9 MLAs authorized by means of the Election Fee to vote on the Parliament area, 728 (719 MPs and 9 MLAs) forged their votes.

    Previous, the officer had mentioned that six MPs didn’t forged their vote, however the determine was once revised to 8 after recompilation of the information.

    NEW DELHI: Balloting for the presidential ballot ended on Monday with 98.90 consistent with cent of the electors authorized to vote within the parliament area exercising their franchise, Returning Officer PC Mody mentioned.

    Top Minister Narendra Modi, House Minister Amit Shah and Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi forged their votes on the parliament area. Balloting additionally happened in state assemblies around the nation.

    Going by means of the stand taken by means of more than a few events, NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu is ready to win the ballot in opposition to joint Opposition nominee Yashwant Sinha.

    Briefing newshounds after the balloting, Returning Officer Mody mentioned out of 736 electors comprising 727 MPs and 9 MLAs authorized by means of the Election Fee to vote on the Parliament area, 728 (719 MPs and 9 MLAs) forged their votes.

    Previous, the officer had mentioned that six MPs didn’t forged their vote, however the determine was once revised to 8 after recompilation of the information.

  • Polling underway to elect India’s fifteenth President; opposition fears cross-voting in Maharashtra

    Via PTI

    NEW DELHI: As many as 350 electors, together with High Minister Narendra Modi and previous high minister Manmohan Singh, forged their vote within the first 1.5 hours of the presidential ballot, assets mentioned Monday.

    Vote casting for the presidential election by which NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu is pitted towards joint opposition select Yashwant Sinha started on Monday morning with High Minister Modi being the primary to forged his vote.

    The balloting procedure would conclude at 5 pm.

    Vote casting was once additionally underway in quite a lot of state assemblies for the presidential ballot and the early citizens within the states integrated Rajasthan Leader Minister Ashok Gehlot, Tamil Nadu Leader Minister M Ok Stalin, Maharashtra Leader Minister Eknath Shinde, Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis and Delhi Deputy Leader Minister Manish Sisodia.

    Just about 4,800 elected MPs and MLAs are entitled to vote within the election, however nominated MPs and MLAs, and participants of Legislative Councils don’t seem to be.

    But even so Room quantity 63 at the first flooring of Parliament Area, which has been transformed right into a polling station, balloting is concurrently happening at quite a lot of state assemblies.

    Within the nationwide capital, balloting could also be underway on the Delhi legislative meeting.

    Counting of votes can be hung on July 21.

    The device of secret poll is adopted within the presidential election, and events can’t factor whips to their MPs and MLAs in regards to balloting.

    The price of the vote of a Member of Parliament has long gone all the way down to 700 from 708 on this presidential ballot because of the absence of a legislative meeting in Jammu and Kashmir.

    The price of vote of an MLA varies in several states.

    In Uttar Pradesh, the worth of vote of every MLA stands at 208, adopted via 176 in Jharkhand and Tamil Nadu.

    In Maharashtra, it’s 175.

    In Sikkim, the worth of vote in keeping with MLA is seven, whilst it’s 9 in Nagaland and 8 in Mizoram.

    Based on the device of proportional illustration by the use of unmarried transferable vote, each elector can mark as many personal tastes, as there are applicants contesting the election.

    Those personal tastes for the applicants are to be marked via the elector, via putting the figures 1,2,3, 4, 5 and so forth, towards the names of the applicants, within the order of desire, within the area equipped in column 2 of the poll paper.

    In keeping with Election Fee’s instructions, whilst MPs gets a green-coloured poll paper, the MLAs gets a purple poll paper to forged their vote.

    Separate colors lend a hand the returning officer confirm the worth of vote of every MLA and MP.

    In the hunt for to deal with secrecy of balloting, the EC has issued a specifically designed pen with violet ink to allow citizens mark their poll papers within the presidential ballot.

    In the meantime, Opposition presidential candidate Yashwant Sinha on Monday mentioned the presidential ballot would come to a decision the course of the rustic as as to whether democracy will stay or now not, as he appealed to electors to hear their “inside voice” and beef up him.

    Sinha has again and again advised lawmakers to vote with the decision of moral sense within the election, the place the win of NDA presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu is a forgone conclusion with a number of non-NDA events additionally supporting the candidature of the tribal chief.

    “I’ve again and again mentioned that this election is essential as it is going to come to a decision the course as as to whether democracy will stay in India or will slowly finish.

    The indicators that we’re getting is that we’re transferring in opposition to its finish,” Sinha advised newshounds.

    He appealed to Parliamentarians and legislators around the nation to hear their “inside voice” and beef up him within the election.

    “There’s no celebration whip. It is a secret poll. I attraction to all MPs and MLAs to make use of their discretion and elect me to avoid wasting democracy,” he mentioned.

    Sinha mentioned he isn’t just combating a political struggle, however a struggle towards govt companies too.

    “Executive companies have change into very lively, they’re inflicting break up in political events, they’re compelling other folks to vote in a specific manner and there could also be a sport of cash concerned,” he mentioned.

    Sinha, who started his electoral marketing campaign from Kerala on June 28, ended the similar on July 16 with a consult with to his house state of Jharkhand.

    All over this era, he visited 13 state capitals — Thiruvananthapuram, Chennai, Raipur, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Gandhinagar, Srinagar, Chandigarh, Jaipur, Guwahati, Bhopal, Patna and Ranchi — and addressed a number of press meetings and 50 interviews.

    The presidential election effects can be out on July 21.

    Then again, Maharashtra BJP president Chandrakant Patil on Monday mentioned he was once positive that one of the crucial Congress MLAs who remained absent all over the Eknath Shinde govt’s agree with vote will vote as in keeping with their moral sense in favour of the Nationwide Democratic Alliance’s presidential ballot candidate Droupadi Murmu.

    Talking to newshounds within the Maharashtra Vidhan Bhavan premises the place balloting was once underway for the presidential election, Patil mentioned the Congress can’t even guard its personal MLAs.

    “I’m positive that some Congress MLAs who remained absent all over the vote of self belief will observe their moral sense this time as neatly,” he quipped.

    The NDA has fielded Droupadi Murmu for the rustic’s most sensible constitutional submit, whilst the opposition has nominated former Union minister Yashwant Sinha.

    BJP MLA and previous Maharashtra minister Ashish Shelar mentioned, “The opposition events must now not boast about their energy. They have got fallen flat on their face previous additionally.”

    All over the Shinde govt’s vote of self belief on July 4, 11 Congress legislators, together with former Maharashtra leader minister Ashok Chavan weren’t provide within the Meeting.

    They might now not vote as they reached the Vidhan Bhawan past due.

    Senior Congress chief and previous state leader minister Prithviraj Chavan had taken a dim view of such a lot of celebration MLAs being absent all over the the most important agree with vote within the Area.

    The BJP these days has 106 MLAs within the 288-member Maharashtra Meeting at the side of 40 MLAs belonging to the Eknath Shinde faction of the Shiv Sena, but even so 10 independents who beef up the BJP.

    The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena with 15 MLAs has introduced beef up for Murmu.

    The NCP and Congress have 53 and 44 MLAs, respectively.

    there are considerations a number of the opposition events over the potential of cross-voting.

    MLAs and MPs shape the electoral school to elect the President of India.

    The Nationalist Congress Birthday celebration (NCP) and Congress – the 2 primary opposition events in Maharashtra – have already held conferences with their legislators to verify there is not any any cross-voting in favour of the BJP-led Nationwide Democratic Alliance’s candidate Droupadi Murmu.

    The opposition is anxious as Maharashtra Leader Minister Eknath Shinde on Sunday claimed that Murmu would get the beef up of 200 MLAs from the state.

    “We will be able to arrange to get the votes of 200 MLAs for Droupadi Murmu. We wish an overly at ease win for her,”” he mentioned.

    Former Union minister Yashwant Sinha is the candidate of the Opposition.

    Particularly, cross-voting was once held all over the Rajya Sabha elections and the Maharashtra Legislative Council polls final month.

    All 5 applicants of the BJP had gained the Legislative Council polls held for 10 seats, whilst with its personal numbers the BJP will have gained handiest 4 seats.

    The Shiv Sena and the NCP gained two seats every, whilst the Congress may just handiest bag one seat.

    “There are some considerations within the NCP and Congress over guarding their votes.”

    “The Congress already confronted a humiliation within the Legislative Council election when one in all its applicants misplaced towards the BJP. We don’t need it to occur once more,” a senior Congress chief mentioned.

    The BJP these days has 106 MLAs within the 288-member Maharashtra Meeting at the side of 40 MLAs belonging to the Eknath Shinde faction of the Shiv Sena, but even so 10 independents who beef up the BJP.

    “With out cross-voting, Murmu can’t get the votes of 200 MLAs, as claimed via CM Shinde. If Murmu will get 200 votes, it is going to be an additional setback for the Congress, NCP and the Shiv Sena,” a political analyst mentioned.

    The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena with 15 MLAs has introduced beef up for Murmu.

    The NCP and Congress have 53 and 44 MLAs, respectively.

    Of the full 48 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra, 23 MPs belong to the BJP, 18 to Shiv Sena, 4 to NCP, and one to Congress.

    Of the remainder two MPs, one belongs to the All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) and every other is Impartial.

    Quite a lot of political events within the state also are taking additional efforts to verify not one of the votes forged via their MLAs and MPs flip invalid within the presidential election.

    NEW DELHI: As many as 350 electors, together with High Minister Narendra Modi and previous high minister Manmohan Singh, forged their vote within the first 1.5 hours of the presidential ballot, assets mentioned Monday.

    Vote casting for the presidential election by which NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu is pitted towards joint opposition select Yashwant Sinha started on Monday morning with High Minister Modi being the primary to forged his vote.

    The balloting procedure would conclude at 5 pm.

    Vote casting was once additionally underway in quite a lot of state assemblies for the presidential ballot and the early citizens within the states integrated Rajasthan Leader Minister Ashok Gehlot, Tamil Nadu Leader Minister M Ok Stalin, Maharashtra Leader Minister Eknath Shinde, Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis and Delhi Deputy Leader Minister Manish Sisodia.

    Just about 4,800 elected MPs and MLAs are entitled to vote within the election, however nominated MPs and MLAs, and participants of Legislative Councils don’t seem to be.

    But even so Room quantity 63 at the first flooring of Parliament Area, which has been transformed right into a polling station, balloting is concurrently happening at quite a lot of state assemblies.

    Within the nationwide capital, balloting could also be underway on the Delhi legislative meeting.

    Counting of votes can be hung on July 21.

    The device of secret poll is adopted within the presidential election, and events can’t factor whips to their MPs and MLAs in regards to balloting.

    The price of the vote of a Member of Parliament has long gone all the way down to 700 from 708 on this presidential ballot because of the absence of a legislative meeting in Jammu and Kashmir.

    The price of vote of an MLA varies in several states.

    In Uttar Pradesh, the worth of vote of every MLA stands at 208, adopted via 176 in Jharkhand and Tamil Nadu.

    In Maharashtra, it’s 175.

    In Sikkim, the worth of vote in keeping with MLA is seven, whilst it’s 9 in Nagaland and 8 in Mizoram.

    Based on the device of proportional illustration by the use of unmarried transferable vote, each elector can mark as many personal tastes, as there are applicants contesting the election.

    Those personal tastes for the applicants are to be marked via the elector, via putting the figures 1,2,3, 4, 5 and so forth, towards the names of the applicants, within the order of desire, within the area equipped in column 2 of the poll paper.

    In keeping with Election Fee’s instructions, whilst MPs gets a green-coloured poll paper, the MLAs gets a purple poll paper to forged their vote.

    Separate colors lend a hand the returning officer confirm the worth of vote of every MLA and MP.

    In the hunt for to deal with secrecy of balloting, the EC has issued a specifically designed pen with violet ink to allow citizens mark their poll papers within the presidential ballot.

    In the meantime, Opposition presidential candidate Yashwant Sinha on Monday mentioned the presidential ballot would come to a decision the course of the rustic as as to whether democracy will stay or now not, as he appealed to electors to hear their “inside voice” and beef up him.

    Sinha has again and again advised lawmakers to vote with the decision of moral sense within the election, the place the win of NDA presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu is a forgone conclusion with a number of non-NDA events additionally supporting the candidature of the tribal chief.

    “I’ve again and again mentioned that this election is essential as it is going to come to a decision the course as as to whether democracy will stay in India or will slowly finish.

    The indicators that we’re getting is that we’re transferring in opposition to its finish,” Sinha advised newshounds.

    He appealed to Parliamentarians and legislators around the nation to hear their “inside voice” and beef up him within the election.

    “There’s no celebration whip. It is a secret poll. I attraction to all MPs and MLAs to make use of their discretion and elect me to avoid wasting democracy,” he mentioned.

    Sinha mentioned he isn’t just combating a political struggle, however a struggle towards govt companies too.

    “Executive companies have change into very lively, they’re inflicting break up in political events, they’re compelling other folks to vote in a specific manner and there could also be a sport of cash concerned,” he mentioned.

    Sinha, who started his electoral marketing campaign from Kerala on June 28, ended the similar on July 16 with a consult with to his house state of Jharkhand.

    All over this era, he visited 13 state capitals — Thiruvananthapuram, Chennai, Raipur, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Gandhinagar, Srinagar, Chandigarh, Jaipur, Guwahati, Bhopal, Patna and Ranchi — and addressed a number of press meetings and 50 interviews.

    The presidential election effects can be out on July 21.

    Then again, Maharashtra BJP president Chandrakant Patil on Monday mentioned he was once positive that one of the crucial Congress MLAs who remained absent all over the Eknath Shinde govt’s agree with vote will vote as in keeping with their moral sense in favour of the Nationwide Democratic Alliance’s presidential ballot candidate Droupadi Murmu.

    Talking to newshounds within the Maharashtra Vidhan Bhavan premises the place balloting was once underway for the presidential election, Patil mentioned the Congress can’t even guard its personal MLAs.

    “I’m positive that some Congress MLAs who remained absent all over the vote of self belief will observe their moral sense this time as neatly,” he quipped.

    The NDA has fielded Droupadi Murmu for the rustic’s most sensible constitutional submit, whilst the opposition has nominated former Union minister Yashwant Sinha.

    BJP MLA and previous Maharashtra minister Ashish Shelar mentioned, “The opposition events must now not boast about their energy. They have got fallen flat on their face previous additionally.”

    All over the Shinde govt’s vote of self belief on July 4, 11 Congress legislators, together with former Maharashtra leader minister Ashok Chavan weren’t provide within the Meeting.

    They might now not vote as they reached the Vidhan Bhawan past due.

    Senior Congress chief and previous state leader minister Prithviraj Chavan had taken a dim view of such a lot of celebration MLAs being absent all over the the most important agree with vote within the Area.

    The BJP these days has 106 MLAs within the 288-member Maharashtra Meeting at the side of 40 MLAs belonging to the Eknath Shinde faction of the Shiv Sena, but even so 10 independents who beef up the BJP.

    The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena with 15 MLAs has introduced beef up for Murmu.

    The NCP and Congress have 53 and 44 MLAs, respectively.

    there are considerations a number of the opposition events over the potential of cross-voting.

    MLAs and MPs shape the electoral school to elect the President of India.

    The Nationalist Congress Birthday celebration (NCP) and Congress – the 2 primary opposition events in Maharashtra – have already held conferences with their legislators to verify there is not any any cross-voting in favour of the BJP-led Nationwide Democratic Alliance’s candidate Droupadi Murmu.

    The opposition is anxious as Maharashtra Leader Minister Eknath Shinde on Sunday claimed that Murmu would get the beef up of 200 MLAs from the state.

    “We will be able to arrange to get the votes of 200 MLAs for Droupadi Murmu. We wish an overly at ease win for her,”” he mentioned.

    Former Union minister Yashwant Sinha is the candidate of the Opposition.

    Particularly, cross-voting was once held all over the Rajya Sabha elections and the Maharashtra Legislative Council polls final month.

    All 5 applicants of the BJP had gained the Legislative Council polls held for 10 seats, whilst with its personal numbers the BJP will have gained handiest 4 seats.

    The Shiv Sena and the NCP gained two seats every, whilst the Congress may just handiest bag one seat.

    “There are some considerations within the NCP and Congress over guarding their votes.”

    “The Congress already confronted a humiliation within the Legislative Council election when one in all its applicants misplaced towards the BJP. We don’t need it to occur once more,” a senior Congress chief mentioned.

    The BJP these days has 106 MLAs within the 288-member Maharashtra Meeting at the side of 40 MLAs belonging to the Eknath Shinde faction of the Shiv Sena, but even so 10 independents who beef up the BJP.

    “With out cross-voting, Murmu can’t get the votes of 200 MLAs, as claimed via CM Shinde. If Murmu will get 200 votes, it is going to be an additional setback for the Congress, NCP and the Shiv Sena,” a political analyst mentioned.

    The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena with 15 MLAs has introduced beef up for Murmu.

    The NCP and Congress have 53 and 44 MLAs, respectively.

    Of the full 48 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra, 23 MPs belong to the BJP, 18 to Shiv Sena, 4 to NCP, and one to Congress.

    Of the remainder two MPs, one belongs to the All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) and every other is Impartial.

    Quite a lot of political events within the state also are taking additional efforts to verify not one of the votes forged via their MLAs and MPs flip invalid within the presidential election.

  • Presidential polls: Pass-voting fears in Maharashtra Congress, NCP

    By means of PTI

    MUMBAI: As lawmakers from Maharashtra equipment as much as vote on Monday to elect the rustic’s subsequent president, there are considerations some of the opposition events over the potential for cross-voting.

    MLAs and MPs shape the electoral school to elect the President of India.

    The Nationalist Congress Birthday celebration (NCP) and Congress – the 2 major opposition events in Maharashtra – have already held conferences with their legislators to verify there is not any any cross-voting in favour of the BJP-led Nationwide Democratic Alliance’s candidate Droupadi Murmu.

    The opposition is anxious as Maharashtra Leader Minister Eknath Shinde on Sunday claimed that Murmu would get the make stronger of 200 MLAs from the state.

    “We will be able to arrange to get the votes of 200 MLAs for Droupadi Murmu. We wish an excessively at ease win for her,”” he mentioned.

    Former Union minister Yashwant Sinha is the candidate of the Opposition.

    Significantly, cross-voting was once held right through the Rajya Sabha elections and the Maharashtra Legislative Council polls ultimate month.

    All 5 applicants of the BJP had received the Legislative Council polls held for 10 seats, whilst with its personal numbers the BJP can have received most effective 4 seats.

    The Shiv Sena and the NCP received two seats each and every, whilst the Congress may just most effective bag one seat.

    “There are some considerations within the NCP and Congress over guarding their votes.

    “The Congress already confronted a humiliation within the Legislative Council election when certainly one of its candidate misplaced towards the BJP. We don’t want it to occur once more,”” a senior Congress chief mentioned.

    The BJP recently has 106 MLAs within the 288-member Maharashtra Meeting in conjunction with 40 MLAs belonging to the Eknath Shinde faction of the Shiv Sena, but even so 10 independents who make stronger the BJP.

    ““With out cross-voting, Murmu can not get the votes of 200 MLAs, as claimed via CM Shinde. If Murmu will get 200 votes, it’ll be an extra setback for the Congress, NCP and the Shiv Sena,” a political analyst mentioned.

    The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena with 15 MLAs has introduced make stronger for Murmu.

    The NCP and Congress have 53 and 44 MLAs, respectively.

    Of the overall 48 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra, 23 MPs belong to the BJP, 18 to Shiv Sena, 4 to NCP, and one to Congress.

    Of the remainder two MPs, one belongs to the All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) and every other is Impartial.

    Quite a lot of political events within the state also are taking additional efforts to verify not one of the votes solid via their MLAs and MPs flip invalid within the presidential election.

    MUMBAI: As lawmakers from Maharashtra equipment as much as vote on Monday to elect the rustic’s subsequent president, there are considerations some of the opposition events over the potential for cross-voting.

    MLAs and MPs shape the electoral school to elect the President of India.

    The Nationalist Congress Birthday celebration (NCP) and Congress – the 2 major opposition events in Maharashtra – have already held conferences with their legislators to verify there is not any any cross-voting in favour of the BJP-led Nationwide Democratic Alliance’s candidate Droupadi Murmu.

    The opposition is anxious as Maharashtra Leader Minister Eknath Shinde on Sunday claimed that Murmu would get the make stronger of 200 MLAs from the state.

    “We will be able to arrange to get the votes of 200 MLAs for Droupadi Murmu. We wish an excessively at ease win for her,”” he mentioned.

    Former Union minister Yashwant Sinha is the candidate of the Opposition.

    Significantly, cross-voting was once held right through the Rajya Sabha elections and the Maharashtra Legislative Council polls ultimate month.

    All 5 applicants of the BJP had received the Legislative Council polls held for 10 seats, whilst with its personal numbers the BJP can have received most effective 4 seats.

    The Shiv Sena and the NCP received two seats each and every, whilst the Congress may just most effective bag one seat.

    “There are some considerations within the NCP and Congress over guarding their votes.

    “The Congress already confronted a humiliation within the Legislative Council election when certainly one of its candidate misplaced towards the BJP. We don’t want it to occur once more,”” a senior Congress chief mentioned.

    The BJP recently has 106 MLAs within the 288-member Maharashtra Meeting in conjunction with 40 MLAs belonging to the Eknath Shinde faction of the Shiv Sena, but even so 10 independents who make stronger the BJP.

    ““With out cross-voting, Murmu can not get the votes of 200 MLAs, as claimed via CM Shinde. If Murmu will get 200 votes, it’ll be an extra setback for the Congress, NCP and the Shiv Sena,” a political analyst mentioned.

    The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena with 15 MLAs has introduced make stronger for Murmu.

    The NCP and Congress have 53 and 44 MLAs, respectively.

    Of the overall 48 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra, 23 MPs belong to the BJP, 18 to Shiv Sena, 4 to NCP, and one to Congress.

    Of the remainder two MPs, one belongs to the All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) and every other is Impartial.

    Quite a lot of political events within the state also are taking additional efforts to verify not one of the votes solid via their MLAs and MPs flip invalid within the presidential election.

  • Presidential polls: Electoral destiny of Murmu, Sinha to be saved in poll bins, no longer EVMs

    Through PTI

    NEW DELHI: Ever questioned why digital vote casting machines, utilized in 4 Lok Sabha elections and 127 meeting polls since 2004, aren’t deployed in polls to elect the President and Vice President of India, participants of Rajya Sabha, and participants of state legislative councils? The EVMs are according to a era the place they paintings as aggregators of votes in direct elections such because the Lok Sabha and state assemblies.

    Citizens press the button in opposition to the title of the candidate in their selection and the person who baggage the utmost collection of votes is said elected.

    However the election of the President is held in keeping with the gadget of proportional illustration by the use of unmarried transferable vote.

    In keeping with the gadget of proportional illustration by the use of unmarried transferable vote, each and every elector can mark as many personal tastes, as there are applicants contesting the election.

    Those personal tastes for the applicants are to be marked via the elector, via striking the figures 1,2,3, 4, 5 and so forth, in opposition to the names of the applicants, within the order of choice, within the area equipped in column 2 of the poll paper.

    In Monday’s election Droupadi Murmu of the NDA and Yashwant Sinha, sponsored via the opposition are the 2 applicants.

    The EVMs, officers defined, aren’t designed to sign in the program of vote casting.

    The EVM is an aggregator of votes and underneath the gadget of proportional illustration, the device must compute votes according to choice and it calls for an altogether other era.

    In different phrases, a special form of EVM can be wanted.

    Consistent with the August, 2021 factor of ‘My Vote Issues’, a quarterly mag of the Election Fee, since 2004, EVMs had been utilized in 4 Lok Sabha and 127 meeting elections.

    Consistent with the EC web page, first conceived in 1977 within the Election Fee, the Electronics Company of India Ltd. (ECIL), Hyderabad used to be assigned the duty to design and broaden EVMs.

    In 1979 a prototype used to be evolved, which used to be demonstrated via the Election Fee prior to the representatives of political events on August 6, 1980.

    The Bharat Digital Ltd (BEL), Bengaluru, any other public-sector enterprise, used to be co-opted together with ECIL to fabricate EVMs as soon as a large consensus used to be reached on its creation.

    The machines have been first used within the meeting election in Kerala in Might, 1982.

    Alternatively, the absence of a selected legislation prescribing its use resulted in the Preferrred Court docket hanging down that election.

    Therefore, in 1989, Parliament amended the Illustration of the Folks Act, 1951 to create a provision for the usage of EVMs in elections.

    A normal consensus on its creation might be reached most effective in 1998 and those have been utilized in 25 legislative meeting constituencies unfold throughout Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Delhi.

    Within the meeting elections held in Might 2001 within the states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Puducherry and West Bengal, the EVMs have been utilized in all of the meeting constituencies.

    Since then, for each and every state meeting election, the Fee has used the EVMs.

    Within the 2004 Lok Sabha polls, greater than 10 lakh EVMs have been utilized in all 543 parliamentary constituencies of the rustic.

    NEW DELHI: Ever questioned why digital vote casting machines, utilized in 4 Lok Sabha elections and 127 meeting polls since 2004, aren’t deployed in polls to elect the President and Vice President of India, participants of Rajya Sabha, and participants of state legislative councils? The EVMs are according to a era the place they paintings as aggregators of votes in direct elections such because the Lok Sabha and state assemblies.

    Citizens press the button in opposition to the title of the candidate in their selection and the person who baggage the utmost collection of votes is said elected.

    However the election of the President is held in keeping with the gadget of proportional illustration by the use of unmarried transferable vote.

    In keeping with the gadget of proportional illustration by the use of unmarried transferable vote, each and every elector can mark as many personal tastes, as there are applicants contesting the election.

    Those personal tastes for the applicants are to be marked via the elector, via striking the figures 1,2,3, 4, 5 and so forth, in opposition to the names of the applicants, within the order of choice, within the area equipped in column 2 of the poll paper.

    In Monday’s election Droupadi Murmu of the NDA and Yashwant Sinha, sponsored via the opposition are the 2 applicants.

    The EVMs, officers defined, aren’t designed to sign in the program of vote casting.

    The EVM is an aggregator of votes and underneath the gadget of proportional illustration, the device must compute votes according to choice and it calls for an altogether other era.

    In different phrases, a special form of EVM can be wanted.

    Consistent with the August, 2021 factor of ‘My Vote Issues’, a quarterly mag of the Election Fee, since 2004, EVMs had been utilized in 4 Lok Sabha and 127 meeting elections.

    Consistent with the EC web page, first conceived in 1977 within the Election Fee, the Electronics Company of India Ltd. (ECIL), Hyderabad used to be assigned the duty to design and broaden EVMs.

    In 1979 a prototype used to be evolved, which used to be demonstrated via the Election Fee prior to the representatives of political events on August 6, 1980.

    The Bharat Digital Ltd (BEL), Bengaluru, any other public-sector enterprise, used to be co-opted together with ECIL to fabricate EVMs as soon as a large consensus used to be reached on its creation.

    The machines have been first used within the meeting election in Kerala in Might, 1982.

    Alternatively, the absence of a selected legislation prescribing its use resulted in the Preferrred Court docket hanging down that election.

    Therefore, in 1989, Parliament amended the Illustration of the Folks Act, 1951 to create a provision for the usage of EVMs in elections.

    A normal consensus on its creation might be reached most effective in 1998 and those have been utilized in 25 legislative meeting constituencies unfold throughout Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Delhi.

    Within the meeting elections held in Might 2001 within the states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Puducherry and West Bengal, the EVMs have been utilized in all of the meeting constituencies.

    Since then, for each and every state meeting election, the Fee has used the EVMs.

    Within the 2004 Lok Sabha polls, greater than 10 lakh EVMs have been utilized in all 543 parliamentary constituencies of the rustic.