Presidential Poll Results Live Updates | Counting Underway; Ram Nath Kovind Gets 60,683 Votes In Fou

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The candidate who secures at least one vote more than 50 per cent of the total votes will enter into the Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Here are the Live updates:

Ram Nath Kovind gets 60,683 votes, Meira Kumar 22,941 votes in Assam, Arunachal, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar: Returning Officer Anoop Mishra. (PTI)
"I have fought this election with faith, belief and confidence in the ideology. I also believe in inner voice of conscience," Meira Kumar tells the media. Ram Nath Kovind's village celebrates. The counting for the presidential poll has started. The name of the 14th President will be announced by 5 pm today.Thirty-two polling stations, including the one in Parliament house, have been set up in various states.President Pranab Mukherjee will demit the office on July 25.

Congress-led opposition nominated Meira Kumar to face National Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidate Ram Nath Kovind for the presidential race.

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, ...
... a leader and a politician from the BJP, filed his nomination for the election on June 23, 2017.

Meira Kumar, the former Speaker of Lok Sabha, was announced as the Indian National Congress (INC)-lead opposition's candidate for the post of President of India, after a meeting held on the June 22, 2017.

Both Kovind and Kumar are from the Dalit community and have canvassed hard by visiting states to seek support of legislators.

Ballot boxes from 29 state capitals and the union territory of Puducherry have reached Parliament House amid tight security.

The Presidential election on July 17 saw 100 percent polling of 11 states. A total of 771 members of Parliament and 4,109 legislators were eligible to cast votes.