Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma has welcomed the decision of the BJP-led NDA to nominate thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for nominating tribal woman and former Jharkhand Governor Droupadi Murmu as candidate for the upcoming Presidential elections.
Sangma used his Twitter handle to thank Prime Minister Narendra Modi for nominating Murmu as the Presidential candidate.
Extending his best wishes to the BJP presidential candidate, Sangma also recalled that his father and former Lok Sabha Speaker late Purno Agitok Sangma, had a long-cherished dream of having a tribal president for the country.
The election of the new President of India is scheduled to be held on July 18. The counting will be held on July 21.
While voting takes place in Parliament House and state legislative assemblies, the counting of votes is held in New Delhi..
The president is elected by the members of the electoral college consisting of elected members of both houses of Parliament and elected members of the legislative assemblies of all states, including the National Capital Territory of Delhi and the Union Territory of Puducherry.
NPP and its allies in the MDA government in Meghalaya are likely to vote for Murmu. The opposition Trinamool Congress will vote for Yashwant Sinha, the joint Presidential candidate of opposition parties
Under the presidential election system, the total value of the votes from the 60 legislators of the Meghalaya assembly and three members of Parliament (two Lok Sabha members and one Rajya Sabha member) will be 3,144.
While the vote value of 60 legislators is 1,020, that of three parliamentarians – Agatha Sangma (NPP), Vincent Pala (Congress) and Wanwei Roy Kharlukhi (NPP) — is 2,124.
The value of the vote of an individual MLA from Meghalaya is 17 each due to the small population size, while that of an MP is 700 each, which is the same all over the country.
In the past, the value of an MP in the presidential poll is 708 but it came down to 700 due to the absence of a legislative assembly in Jammu and Kashmir.
