Counting of presidential poll votes begins (Lead)
July 22nd, 2012 - 12:46 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 22 (IANS) Counting of votes for the presidential poll began here Sunday with UPA candidate Pranab Mukherjee looking set to win.
Senior Congress leaders including Home Minister P. Chidambaram and Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Rajiv Shukla were present at Parliament House where the counting is being held in Room No.63. The results are expected to be out by 4 p.m.
United Progressive Alliance (UPA) candidate Pranab Mukherjee is expected to bag 735,000 of the 1,097,000 votes.
His rival, Purno Sangma, supported by Bharatiya Janata Party, Shiromani Akali Dal, Asom Gana Parishad, AIADMK and Biju Janata Dal, is expected to garner about 313,000 votes.
India’s lawmakers, belonging to the parliament and legislative assemblies, had cast their ballots July 19 to elect the nation’s 13th president.
About 95 percent of the total 4,896 electors - 776 MPs and 4,120 assembly members — exercised their franchise at the polling centres set up at Parliament House and 30 other state and union territories with assemblies.
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