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Leap of Faith Journey of Indian Elections
M. Venkaiah Naidu being sworn in as the Rajiv Kumar, CEC and Anup Chandra Pandey, EC
Vice President of India, 2017 with the Certificate of Election of the President of India, 2022
The term of the President of India Ramnath Kovind was gazette notification. With conversion and bifurcation of
set to expire on July 24, 2022. On June 9, 2022, Chief earlier state of Jammu & Kashmir into Union Territory of
Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar addressed a press Jammu & Kashmir and Union Territory of Ladakh
conference in New Delhi. The process of Presidential (October 31, 2019) the number of states including NCT of
election began on June 15, 2022, with the publication of Delhi and Puducherry fell to 29. The total members in the
Electoral College for the Presidential Elections, 2022
came down to 4809 from an all-time high of 4896.
According to the Gazette Notification dated July 2, 2022,
there were only two candidates viz. Droupadi Murmu and
Yashwant Sinha. The poll was taken in Room No.63,
Parliament House in New Delhi and Legislative Assembly
buildings in all states on July 17, 2022. The election process
concluded on July 21, 2022 with counting of votes.
Droupadi Murmu emerged as the winner in the
Presidential election by defeating Yashwant Sinha. She
secured 6,76,803 votes over her opponent who polled
3,80,177 votes. P.C. Mody, Secretary General, Rajya
Sabha who was the Returning Officer for the election,
certified her victory.
On July 25, 2022 Droupadi Murmu was sworn in as the
Fifteenth President of India. She is only the second
Droupadi Murmu sworn in as the President of India on July 25, 2022 woman, and first person from the Schedule Tribe
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