BJP-led NDA nominee for Presidential post, Droupadi Murmu, has won the battle for the apex post by surpassing half way mark in electoral college.Droupadi Murmu so far got 5,77,777 votes after 3rd round of counting against Yashwant Sinha’s 2,61,062 votes.
Returning Officer P C Mody said votes of 15 MPs were declared invalid adding that all the votes of MPs have been counted.Voting for the Presidential polls concluded on Monday with over 99 per cent of 4,796 eligible electors, including 771 MPs and 4,025 MLAs, taking part in the process.Eight MPs did not vote in the presidential election, Mody said.Going by the strength of the parties which officially extended support to Murmu, she is estimated to have got votes of five to six more MPs. As many as 538 MPs of various parties had extended their support to Murmu ahead of the election, but a few of them did not vote.
