Presidential Election Results 2022 LIVE Updates: CEC Rajiv Kumar, EC Anup Pandey sign Droupadi Murmu's certificate of election

Returning officer PC Mody will shortly announce results of the first round of counting of MP votes cast inside Parliament.

Counting of votes for presidential election begins in Parliament House after sorting of ballot papers from all states.

The MLAs have marked their votes on pink-coloured ballot papers.

According to the alphabetical order, the ballot boxes from various states, including those from Kerala and Meghalaya, have been sorted.

The green-coloured ballot papers of the MPs from different states will be sorted before the formal counting began this morning.

Counting of votes for Presidential election underway in Parliament

Counting of votes underway, Droupadi Murmu poised to win: TV reports

Not only tribals, but everyone in the country is going to have a sense of pride in having the 1st woman tribal President. I have learnt that all prominent tribal leaders will be coming to Delhi to greet the new likely to be President: Union Minister Kiren Rijiju on Droupadi Murmu

Counting of votes to elect India's 15th President gets under way at Parliament House.

Counting of votes for the Presidential election to begin at 11am.

Counting of votes for the Presidential election to begin at 11am today, preparations underway at Parliament

Counting of votes for the Presidential election today

Counting of votes will begin at 11am and continue till 4pm.

Polling for the presidential election was held between 10am to 5pm Monday at 31 locations including the Parliament house and 30 centres within state legislative assemblies.

Returning officer PC Mody will first brief on the poll trends after all votes of MPs have been counted, and then again after votes of 10 states in alphabetical order have been counted.

Ram Nath Kovind's tenure is ending on July 24 and the new president will take oath on July 25.

Ruling NDA's Droupadi Murmu and Opposition's Yashwant Sinha are pitted against each other in the contest, with votes clearly stacked in favour of Murmu, who, if elected, will be the first tribal woman to occupy the top constitutional post in the country.

India today will know who will succeed incumbent Ram Nath Kovind to become the country's 15th President.