Kovind vs Meira: MPs, MLAs to vote for presidential candidate today
President election: The MPs will vote on Green ballots and the MLAs will vote on pink ballots The elected representative of the Parliament and various state assemblies on Monday will vote to elect India's next President. There are two candidates in the fray for the coveted post- National Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidate Ram Nath Kovind and United Progressive Alliance (UPA) candidate Meira Kumar. President Pranab Mukherjee's term is expiring on July 25. In the last presidential elections 2017 in 2012, Pranab Mukherjee had defeated P A Sangma and got over 69 per cent votes. Ram Nath Kovind, former Governor of Bihar, was announced as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led NDA's candidate for the post of President of India by BJP president Amit Shah on June 19, 2017. Kovind is a leader and a politician from the BJP. Kovind filed his nomination for the election on June 23, 2017. Also Read : Presidential elections 2017: Kovind likely to sail through as ...