Agartala, Jul 19, 2012 : Amidst tight security the polling for electing the President of India has begun in Tripura legislative assembly along with other state assemblies of the country on Thursday morning.
Altogether 57 MLAs of 60 members Tripura Legislative assembly voted for UPA’s Presidential candidate Pranab Mukherjee from Thursday morning even as three members of parliament cast their votes in parliament house in New Delhi.
In the 60-member Assembly, the opposition Congress has 10 members and its ally INPT has 1 member while the ruling Left Front has 49 members.
Mukherjee will get the support of 57 MLAs and 3 MPs as two Left parties- CPI and RSP have not pledged their support to his candidature.
Meanwhile, 1 CPI MLA and 2 RSP members abstained from polling in accordance with the decision of their central leadership.
Earlier, six ballot boxes were sent to the state assembly by Election Commission. Massive security measures were made in and around the Assembly to ensure fairness.
Election had begun at the Assembly House at 10-00 hrs and within three hours, all the voters exercised their franchises in the presence of election observer Devindar Kumar, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Power and Assistant Returning Officer S. Bhattacharjee. Friday morning, the vote boxes will be flown to New Delhi for counting under tight security cover.
Another Presidential candidate P. A. Sangma belonging to northeast did not get any vote from Tripura because he was supported by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led NDA alliance.
According to election commission, vote value of Tripura for the presidential election is 3189 that comprises the value of each MLA at 26 and each MP at 708.
Altogether 57 MLAs of 60 members Tripura Legislative assembly voted for UPA’s Presidential candidate Pranab Mukherjee from Thursday morning even as three members of parliament cast their votes in parliament house in New Delhi.
In the 60-member Assembly, the opposition Congress has 10 members and its ally INPT has 1 member while the ruling Left Front has 49 members.
Mukherjee will get the support of 57 MLAs and 3 MPs as two Left parties- CPI and RSP have not pledged their support to his candidature.
Meanwhile, 1 CPI MLA and 2 RSP members abstained from polling in accordance with the decision of their central leadership.
Earlier, six ballot boxes were sent to the state assembly by Election Commission. Massive security measures were made in and around the Assembly to ensure fairness.
Election had begun at the Assembly House at 10-00 hrs and within three hours, all the voters exercised their franchises in the presence of election observer Devindar Kumar, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Power and Assistant Returning Officer S. Bhattacharjee. Friday morning, the vote boxes will be flown to New Delhi for counting under tight security cover.
Another Presidential candidate P. A. Sangma belonging to northeast did not get any vote from Tripura because he was supported by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led NDA alliance.
According to election commission, vote value of Tripura for the presidential election is 3189 that comprises the value of each MLA at 26 and each MP at 708.
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