<span style="color: #222222;">In Uttar Pradesh, voting for presidential elections completed peacefully. Four MLAs of the state cast their votes in Delhi while one MLA casted his vote in Kerala.<br />''<br />''AIR correspondent reports, with the highest vote value of 208 for each of the total 403 MLAs, Uttar Pradesh plays an important role in presidential election in which NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu is contesting against Opposition nominee Yashwant Sinha.<br />''<br />''Uttar Pradesh also has the highest number of Lok Sabha members from the state which makes its position more important in the presidential elections.&nbsp; Major political parties have already announced their support for the respective candidates.<br />''<br />''In the Opposition camp, apart from Bahujan samaj party, Suhaildev Bhartiya Samaj party, key ally of Samajwadi party, has declared its support to NDA candidate Ms. Murmu in the presidential election while SP MLA Shivpal Singh yadav and Lok Jansatta dal of Raghuraj Pratap Singh have also announced their support to Draupadi Murmu.<br />''<br />''In Gujarat, voting was conducted peacefully in the state Assembly to elect the country's 16th president today. Briefing media, state Revenue Minister Rajendra Trivedi said Gujarat has recorded 100 percent voting today. He said all the 178 eligible MLAs and one Rajyasabha MP Parimal Nathvani today cast their vote for the Presidential Election.<br />''<br />''AIR correspondent reports that out of the 178 MLAs eligible to cast vote, the BJP has 111, Congress-63, Bharatiya Tribal Party-two, the NCP one and there is one independent MLA.</span>
News On AIR | July 18, 2022 8:01 PM
Voting for Presidential elections ends in Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat