Presidential Elections

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Candidates or others have seven days to file any challenge over the election results. The Supreme Court will have 14 days to rule

Sources said that former party President Rahul Gandhi has lined up a series of meeting with state units. He also plans to visit every district in the country in the run-up to the general elections.

The most dismaying fact is that tribals have a very high dropout rate

Records show that since 1977, successive presidents have taken oath on July 25

Going by the stand taken by various parties, NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu is set to win the poll against joint Opposition nominee Yashwant Sinha.

With the BJP's dominance and support from regional parties such as the BJD, BSP, Shiromani Akali Dal, Shiv Sena and now JMM, Murmu's vote share is likely to reach nearly two-thirds.

The Dakha MLA said he has no opposition to candidature of Murmu. But when the party decided to vote for the BJP candidate, I was not consulted. Even the Sikh community was also not consulted, he said.

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The polling will take place between 10 am and 5 pm in the Parliament and state legislative assemblies

BJP president J P Nadda held a dinner meeting with party MPs and asked them to ensure 100 per cent voting in the upcoming presidential election, sources said

Patnaik said the BJD has been a proposer for Murmu as she is the daughter of Odisha in the fray for the country's topmost position. He asked all the party MLAs to vote for Murmu.

It makes me feel sad that the samajwadis who lose their temper at the insult of Netaji, are today supporting the person who had insulted him," said Shivpal Yadav.

Five MLAs - Sankalp Amonkar, Yuri Alemao, Altone D'Costa, Rudolf Fernandes and Carlose Alvares Ferreira were moved to Chennai on Friday evening soon after the proceedings of Assembly session got over

Sinha was in Patna during his presidential election campaign and all the opposition parties including the RJD, Congress, the CPI, the CPI-M, and the CPI-ML unanimously expressed their support.

As prime minister is thinking of bringing the downtrodden into the mainstream.... and they should not feel small in life, (so) I have said yes to the offer, she added.

Thackeray said the Sena is announcing support to Murmu without any pressure. Nobody pressured me in the meeting of Sena MPs, he added.

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"The TDP always stood for social justice. It had in the past supported K R Narayanan and A P J Abdul Kalam for the President's post," TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu said.