Pranab Mukherjee elected to be next president of India


Pranab Mukherjee
Pranab said after winning president poll, My deep gratitude and appreciation to all.Voting, except one state all others states voted in favor and my total  voting has crossed seven lakhs.
Rahul, Sonia Gandhi meet Pranab Mukherjee at his residence greet him on election as President.
Prime Minister with his wife Gursharan Kaur reach Mukherjee’s residence to greet him on election as 13th President.  Twittered Dr Manmohan Singh@PMOIndia
Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh meets Mr Pranab Mukherjee to congratulate him on being elected as the President of India.5:38 PM – 22 Jul 12 via Twitter for iPhone
PA Sangma congratulates Pranab Mukherjee, says ‘nation has lost opportunity to elevate a tribal to post of President.India’s president house at Raisina Hills, a palatial mansion  of 340-room, palace in New Delhi built for the British Viceroy in colonial rule, is chosen by legislators from the two houses of parliament and state assemblies.
Under the constitution, the prime minister wields plethora of the executive power, kingmakers is role  the president can play a guiding role in the process of forming governments.The next general election, due to be held in 2014, is predicted to be close, leading to a period of complex hung between numerous national and regional parties would be trying to form a stable coalition government. Pranab Mukherjee will be formally sworn in on Wednesday, taking over for a five-year term from Pratibha Patil, India’s first woman president.
Pranab crossed the 558064 in vote value and is set to be India’s next president.Total value of votes in favour of Pranab Mukherjee so far is 5,58,064, while those in favour of PA Sangma is 2,40,783 inspite of  counting of votes remains in Tamil Nadu, West Bengal .At the end of counting in Maharashtra, the 15th of the 30 states, Sangma, supported by some opposition parties including Bharatiya Janata Party got 2,39,966 vote value. Chidambaram visitng Pranab’s home with an invitation for the banquet at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Pranab Mukherjee’s daughter Sharmistha tells NDTV that her father would give a new dimension to the office of President of India with his experience and his personal rapport with political leaders that cut across party lines.”I think he has done justice to the offices he has held. He has fulfilled his duties and responsibilities to the best of his ability in whatever he has done. I’m sure he will give a new dimension to the office of the president of India,” she told NDTV.
President poll: Pranab Mukherjee gets support of 527 of the 748 MPs. P.A. Sangma gets support of 296 MPs. 15 votes invalid:
In the 230-member BJP dominated Madhya Pradesh Assembly Mukherjee got 73 votes while Sangma got 156. Four votes were invalid
The halfway mark is down as over 50,000 votes are invalid. . Sangma has notched a truly dismal vote value of 240783 so far.
In Kerala, all votes go to Pranab Mukherjee. Not a single vote for PA Sangma!
Jharkhand: Pranab got 60 votes, Sangma got 20.
Jammu and Kashmir: Pranab got 68 votes, Sangma got 15
Himachal Pradesh: Pranab got 44 votes to Sangma’s 23 votes.
Karnataka, Pranab Mukherjee gets 117 in vote value to PA Sangma’s 103.
90-member Haryana Assembly, Mukherjee got 53 while Sangma received 29 voes. Eight votes were invalid. In terms of vote value, Mukherjee got 5936 and Sangma got 3248.
BJP-ruled 182-member Gujarat Assembly,  Mukherjee got 59 votes and Sangma 123 votes. In terms of vote value, Mukherjee got 8673 while Sangma got 18,081.
Bihar too, where the ruling JD-U has declared support for Mukherjee, the UPA candidate got 146 out of the 240 votes polled in the 243 member Assembly. Sangma got 90, mostly from BJP, which shares power with JD-U.
Mukherjee’s vote value in in the state was 25,258 while for Sangma it was 15,570.
Goa and Chhattisgarh results favor  for PA Sangma where he is leading over Pranab Mukherjee.
In the 90-member Chhattisgarh Assembly, Pranab Mukherjee has got 39 votes, while Sangma won 50. One vote was invalid. In terms of vote value, Pranab got 5,031 while Sangma got 6,450.
In the 40-member Goa Assembly, Mukherjee got 9 votes and Sangma 31. In vote value, this means Mukherjee got 180 while Sangma got 621.
On the sidelines, the Shiromani Akalai Dal prophecy runs thus: The presidential poll exposes the rift in the UPA, Mamata and DMK will return to NDA.
In Assam, of the 125 votes, Pranab gets 110, Sangma gets 13
In Arunachal Pradesh, Pranab gets 54, Sangma gets 2 .
In Bihar, of the 240 votes, Pranab gets 146, Sangma gets 90
In Andhra Pradesh, Pranab gets 182, Sangma gets 3.
In Arunachal Pradesh, Pranab got 54 of the 59 votes polled.
Pranab gets majority in MPs: 527 out of 748 votes:   Pranab Mukherjee gets majority of vote value among MPs in the President’s election. Out of 748 votes counted, 15 are invalid. Sangma gets 206 votes with a value of 145848. Pranab Mukherjee gets 527 votes with a value of 373116.

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