India to get new President soon, counting of votes begin

The process of counting of votes to declare the next president of the country commenced on Thursday morning, with polling officials sorting the ballot papers from different states, reported PTI citing officials. The key candidates in the fray are National Democratic Alliance's (NDA) Droupadi Murmu and Opposition's Yashwant Sinha.

The ballot boxes from various states have been sorted in an alphabetical order. The green-coloured ballot papers of the MPs from different states will be sorted before the formal counting begins.

The MLAs have marked their votes on pink-coloured ballot papers.


Voting for the presidential poll took place in Parliament House and various legislative assemblies on July 18.

The counting of votes will take place in Parliament House under the supervision of Rajya Sabha Secretary General P C Mody, who is the chief returning officer for the poll, the assistant returning officers and the observers deployed by the Election Commission.

(With inputs from PTI)