Goa BJP to mobilise max support for President of India election

The counting will be held on 20^th July. Goa’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is hopeful of getting support of its alliance partners and increase the percentage of votes.

  Election Commission of India has notified the schedule of Presidential election. The nominations would be accepted till 28^th of June, scrutiny on 29^th June, withdrawals by 1^st of July, election on 17^th July and counting of votes on 20^th July.

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PRESIDENT ELECTION SCHEDULE

Nominations till 28 June

Scrutiny 29 June

Withdrawal 1 July

Election 17 July

Counting 20 July

 Goa has three MPs and 38 MLAs. Vishwajeet Rane and Sidharth Kunkolkar have resigned as the MLAs. Each MP has 708 votes while each MLA has 20 votes.

The Congress has one Rajya Sabha MP Shantaram Naik and 16 Congress MLAs. The BJP has 2 MPs and 11 MLAs. Besides these, the BJP is trying to mobilise votes of the rest 11 MLAs in favour of the BJP candidate for the President’s post. Provided, there would be election.