Droupadi Murmu bagged 64.03 percent of the electoral college votes, while her contender Yashwant Sinha got 35.97 percent votes. Murmu got votes from 540 MPs and 2,284 MLAs. She received 100 percent votes from Nagaland, Sikkim and Andhra Pradesh.
The BJP has 71 MLAs in the 200 members of Vidhasabha of Rajasthan and 24 of the total 25 MPs. The BJP and other party leaders assured their full support to Murmu.
BJP has included Union Ministers Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Ashwini Vaishnaw and Sarbananda Sonowal in the management team for the upcoming Presidential elections.
The Rajasthan assembly polls in 2023 might still be some distance away but the saffron party is all set to sound the election bugle from this opposition-ruled desert state.Preparations have been made to convene a meeting of the saffron party s .
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