The poll material will be sent to state legislative assemblies where voting will take place.
Mumbai: The Election Commission, from Tuesday will start distributing the ballot paper and special pens as well as ballot boxes to mark the votes for the Presidential Elections for the July 18 .As part of the two-day exercise, the poll material will be sent to state legislative assemblies where voting will take place. Besides legislative assemblies, voting will also take place in Parliament House.
The exercise is planned keeping the flight schedules in mind of various states.Elected MPs and elected MLAs — and not the nominated ones — form the electoral college which elects the president. MLCs are not entitled to vote. Delhi and Puducherry are the two union territories with legislative assemblies where MLAs will vote.
The NDA has nominated Droupadi Murmu as the presidential candidate while major non-BJP parties, including the Congress and the TMC, have named former Union minister Yashwant Sinha as the joint nominee for the presidential election.
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