He is expected to get a vote share of around 7.5 lakh
UPA candidate Pranab Mukherjee is all set to be elected the 13th President of the country. Votes polled in the election held on Thursday will be counted on Sunday. Barring a bizarre incident involving Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, who first voted by mistake for NDA-backed candidate P.A. Sangma and later rectified it, it was a listless election.
Right from the day the UPA declared the former Finance Minister as its presidential choice, the election was a one-sided affair. Given the strength of the parties in the presidential electoral college which have extended their support to Mr. Mukherjee, there has never been any doubt about his victory.
There were elements of drama in the run-up to the election with differences among all the three political formations on the strategy. Within the UPA, the Trinamool Congress kept the suspense till the last minute by refusing to spell out whether or not it would vote for Mr. Mukherjee.
The NDA was divided with the Janata Dal (United) and the Shiv Sena throwing their weight behind Mr. Mukherjee. Among the Left parties, while the CPI(M) and the Forward Bloc decided to back Mr. Mukherjee, the CPI and the RSP decided to abstain.
The electoral college consists of 4,120 MLAs and 776 MPs with a total vote value of 10.98 lakh.
With the support of the SP (66,688 vote value), the BSP (45,473), the JD(U) (40,737), the Shiv Sena (18,495), the JD(S) (6,138) and the CPI(M) and the Forward Bloc (around 41,000), Mr. Mukherjee can expect a vote share of around 7.5 lakh. Mr. Sangma, who was sponsored by the AIADMK and the BJD and backed by several NDA constituents, is expected to get around 3.15 lakh vote value.
The headline for this article has been changed to reflect the fact that Mr Pranab Mukherjee is likely to be the 13th person to be sworn in as President.
Keywords: 2012 Presidential poll, Pranab-Sangma contest
Great! A man with such a rich experience, wisdom and hailing from West Bengal- the
nucleus for India's science, spirituality and politics -in the 19-20 th centuries is to
be admired. All the best for the THRYODASHI PRESIDENT!
Well, as the first citizen of India , we hope Mr. Pranab Mukherjee would
come out of political constraints and work for the country in such a way
that the esteemed Rashtrapati Bhawan demands from its dweller.
Pranab Mukherjee is a great and very very experienced man in the Indian political figure.He deserves to be the constitutional head of India.He will win and we all should heartly expect it.He is not corrupt person like all other Congress men.so Mrs Gandhi is shifting the person to the rastapati bhawan and not making him the deserving person Prime Minister, But Pranab is also a well deserved person for that particular post that is is given as the 13th President of India.
When Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil is accepted as the twelfth First
Citizen of India, why is Sri. Pranab Mukherjee deemed as the 14th
President of the country? Is it because number thirteen is treated as
unlucky number in some countries?
Recently, Mr Pranab Mukherjee admitted to the press that in the past, he took some
wrong decisions remembering the faces he was seeing frequently. Will he now come
out of that habit and act judiciously, impartially to do justice in his new Avatar as the
first citizen of India?
Pranab Mukherjee is the best sutiable man for this job to lead the country for the next five year term.He is well educated,
It is sure that upa candidate will won the election.
Is it not 13th Presidential elections?
I think it would't matter much for the common man who became the President (vested interests of various parties) and he would obviously favor those people who supported him in the election... And Mr. Mukherjee was better of as the Finance minister. All this election business seems like a jubilant waste..
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