Country to know who will be 15th President of India on Thursday as counting begins at 11am

Ruling NDA's Droupadi Murmu and Opposition's Yashwant Sinha are pitted against each other in the contest. Murmu, if elected, will be the first tribal woman to occupy the top constitutional post in the country. With ballot boxes from all states having reached the Parliament House, poll officials are ready for the counting in room number 63, where the boxes are guarded behind a round the clock security.