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Droupadi Murmu, NDA's candidate for the presidential election filed her nomination papers at the Parliament on Friday.
The presidential election would be held on July 18 to elect a successor to incumbent Ram Nath Kovind and the counting of votes would be on July 21.
Meanwhile, support from many parties poured in for Murmu.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Jagan Reddy has extended his YSRC party’s support to the NDA Presidential candidate Draupadi Murmu.
Odisha Chief Minister and Biju Janata Dal (BJD) supremo Naveen Patnaik had earlier renewed his support for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led NDA's Presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu and urged all lawmakers in Assembly “cutting across party lines” to extend their support to the state’s daughter.
Naveen Patnaik took to twitter and wrote “Appeal all the members of Odisha Legislative Assembly, cutting across party lines, to extend unanimous support to elect the daughter of #Odisha - Smt #DraupadiMurmu to the country’s highest office.”
Janata Dal (United) has formally announced its support for Murmu for the upcoming election. Taking to Twitter, JD (U) national president Rajiv Ranjan (Lalan) Singh announced it on Wednesday. He wrote, “Janata Dal (U) welcomes and supports the candidature of Draupadi Murmu ji. My heartiest congratulations on being nominated for the presidential election.”
Also, Lok Jan Shakti Party president Chirag Paswan has rendered support to Murmu. He tweeted, “It is a matter of pride for us that Draupadi Murmu Ji has been nominated as the Presidential candidate by NDA. This would be the first time in the country that a daughter coming from a tribal society would assume the responsibility of the highest post in the country. LJP (Ram Vilas) fully supports this decision of the BJP.”
JD(S) patriarch HD Deve Gowda on Wednesday termed BJP-led NDA's candidate for presidential polls Draupadi Murmu, as "suitable" and "non controversial".
The ruling BJD has 2.85 per cent votes in the electoral college for the presidential poll while YSR (Congress) has 4 per cent votes. In sum, Draupadi has 55.75 per cent votes in her support if percentage of both BJD and YSR (Congress) parties is added.
The opposition settled for Yahswant Sinha after Sharad Pawar, Gopal Krishna Gandhi and Farooq Abdullah opted out of the race. The former BJP minister resigned from the party in 2018 after being sidelined.
While Draupadi is backed by NDA, BJD, JDU, LJP (Ram Vilas) and YSR Congress, Sinha is supported by TMC, NCP, Shiv Sena, CPI, CPIML, DMK, RJD, SP, National Congress, PDP, JDS, RLD, RSP, IUML and JMM.
