Draupadi Murmu leading after first round of counting
The first round of counting of the Presidential poll on Thursday showed that Draupadi Murmu is far ahead of her counterpart Yashwant Sinha.
The first round of counting of the Presidential poll on Thursday showed that Draupadi Murmu is far ahead of her counterpart Yashwant Sinha.
The counting of votes to elect India's 15th President will take place on Thursday. The counting will begin at Parliament House at 11 am.
The leaders said Sinha’s candidature was supported by the entire Opposition. Sinha filed his nomination papers three days after Murmu, the NDA candidate.
Polling for the Presidential election will begin on Monday in the Parliament and respective state Assemblies to elect a new President.
The presidential candidate, who was in Chandigarh for his poll campaign, said the election for the 15th President is taking place under highly troubled conditions. "Never before, not even during the Emergency in the mid-1970s, did our Republic face as many simultaneous threats to the Constitution. The economy is badly mismanaged, creating unprecedented price rise and unemployment. Our democracy is in grave danger," he said.
Former Maharashtra Chief Minister and Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan, who accompanied Sinha, said the plunging economic numbers are a "matter of grave concern".
Earlier, in an indirect reference to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah’s 'tukde tukde' jibe for the Congress, the former BJP leader had tweeted: 'The most dangerous tukde tukde gang in India consists of only two people, Duryodhan and Dusshashan. They are both in BJP. Beware of them (sic).'
His remarks came after Amit Shah on Thursday hit out at the Congress blaming it of spreading rumours over the Citizenship Amendment Act and instigating violence in the national capital.
Earlier a delegation of Opposition leaders led by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was also asked to return from the Srinagar airport on August 24.
Sinha asked, "If companies like Ola and Uber caused a drop in passenger vehicle sales, then why there is a slowdown in sales of two-wheelers and trucks?"
