Voting for the Presidential Election, 2022, in the Vidhan Sabha, Bhopal concluded peacefully amidst tight security arrangements.
The first vote was cast by the Speaker of the Vidhan Sabha, Girish Gautam and Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. All 230 eligible members of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly took part in the voting.
Voting for the Presidential election began at 10:00 am today. For this election, committee room number-2 of the assembly building has been made a polling station.
For the Presidential election, 60 MLAs voted till the first hour of voting, 196 till the second hour and 230 till the third hour. Last vote was cast at 3.25 in the afternoon by MLA Pratap Grewal.
For this election in Madhya Pradesh, the observer appointed by the Election Commission of India Satyendra Singh, Chief Electoral Officer Anupam Rajan, Additional Chief Electoral Officer Rajesh Kaul, Deputy Chief Electoral Officer Pramod Shukla and other officers were also present during the voting.
In addition, representatives of the presidential candidates, Yashpal Singh Sisodia, Shailendra Jain on behalf of Bharatiya Janata Party and Bala Bachchan and PC Sharma from Indian National Congress Party were present.
Awadhesh Pratap Singh, the Assistant Returning Officer appointed by the Election Commission of India for the Presidential elections and the Principal Secretary of the State Legislative Assembly, carrying a sealed ballot box with full security arrangements, will travel to New Delhi on a regular flight today, where the counting of votes will take place on July 21 at the Parliament House.