New Delhi: President-elect Droupadi Murmu had always looked set for a comfortable win because of NDA’s strength and the support it had secured for her from regional parties, but the scale of her victory became bigger because of the number of votes she managed to secure from the opposition column.
The final tally shows that as many as 126 MLAs spread across 18 states and 17 MPs defied diktats of their respective parties to vote for her, something which appears significant because of the polarised political milieu and opposition’s attempt to turn the presidential contest into a battle of ideologies.
The oucome, while underlining NDA’s dominance and superior managerial skills also provides, perhaps, the first hint of the emergence of a tribal constituency.
While Assam reported the highest number of MLAs cross-voting at 22, Madhya Pradesh, which has a significant number of tribal members on Congress benches, recorded 19 votes for Murmu from across-the-aisle.
This story is from the July 22, 2022 edition of The Times of India Mumbai.
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