{"id":17335,"date":"2022-07-21T12:20:11","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T06:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=17335"},"modified":"2022-07-21T12:20:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T06:50:11","slug":"new-president-of-india-to-be-announced-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/new-president-of-india-to-be-announced-today\/","title":{"rendered":"New President of India to be announced today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Counting of votes for the Presidential election started at 11 am today in Parliament House. The NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu is contesting against Opposition candidate Yashwant Sinha. The results are expected at around 4 pm.<\/p>\n<p>Murmu \u2013 the NDA choice \u2013 is a tribal woman from Odisha and former Governor of Jharkhand. Altogether 34 parties declared support for Sinha and 44 parties have supported Murmu. However, some MLAs have confessed to crossvoting.<\/p>\n<p>The counting will be preceded by sorting, in which votes of MPs and MLAs are separated. The value of the vote of each MP is fixed at 700, while the value of the MLAs\u2019 vote from each state is different. The President-elect will take oath on July 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Counting of votes for the Presidential election started at 11 am today in Parliament House. The NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu is contesting against Opposition candidate Yashwant Sinha. The results are expected at around 4 pm. Murmu \u2013 the NDA choice \u2013 is a tribal woman from Odisha and former Governor of Jharkhand. Altogether 34 parties [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1236,"featured_media":17308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[163,5686,335,583,793],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nation","8":"tag-president-of-india","9":"tag-presidential-election-2022","10":"tag-ram-nath-kovind","11":"tag-top-story","12":"tag-yashwant-sinha"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17336,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17335\/revisions\/17336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17335"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=17335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}