New Delhi (The Stellar News) Saksham Kalia: The Election Commission on Thursday announced the schedule of election to choose the next President of India. The election commission announced that the election to choose the next President of India will be held on July 18, if there is a need, will be held on July 21. The new President will take oath on July 25, the commission said.
There has been speculations that President Ram Nath Kovind will not get a second term in office and the new candidate is likely to be announced soon. So far, only first president Rajendra Prasad was elected twice.
While government sources earlier indicated that a consensus candidate will be preferred, the chances of an election are high. The opposition is likely to put up a joint candidate but a consensus on that too, is not likely to be easy, given the subtle shift in power structure following the Congress’s increasingly poor performance in most elections since 2014.
President Kovind’s term ends on July 24. In 2017, the BJP had picked Mr Kovind, a Dalit and then Governor of Bihar, for the country’s highest office, causing a divide in the opposition camp.
