DEHRADUN: Droupadi Murmu was elected as India's 15th President on Thursday after she defeated her opponent Yashwant Sinha in the presidential election. She secured 2,824 first preference votes against her rival Sinha who managed to get 1,877 first preference votes.
While Murmu's win was already certain given the strength of the NDA alliance in both Houses of the Parliament and several state assemblies, the vote margin with which she won the Presidential election shows that she garnered support from opposition parties too.
