Voting for the next president post is scheduled to take place today

To elect the next president of India the voting for the presidential elections will take place today in which the elected representative of the Parliament and various state assemblies will vote.

The current president Pranab Mukherjee term is  expiring on July 25. For the next presidential elections the two candidates are Ram Nath Kovind from the  National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and Meira Kumar from the  United Progressive Alliance (UPA).

The  former Governor of Bihar Kovind was announced as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led NDA's candidate for the post of President of India by BJP president Amit Shah on June 19 2017.  While, the former Speaker of Lok Sabha Meira Kumar was announced as the Indian National Congress (INC)-lead opposition's candidate for the post of President of India, after a meeting held on the June 22, 2017.

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