Being the country's top constitutional post and the first citizen of the country, the President of India is entitled to various benefits, both in and after office.

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Being the country's top constitutional post and the first citizen of the country, the President of India is entitled to various benefits, both in and after office.

Digital Desk: Draupadi Murmu, the NDA Presidential candidate, consolidated her lead after the second round of counting by receiving nearly 72 percent of the total votes of all MPs and MLAs of 10 states counted to finally emerge as the winning candidate of the Presidential Election after defeating her opposition candidate, Yashwant Sinha with ease.

While Murmu received the votes of 809 MLAs out of a total of 1138 MLAs in 10 states with a vote count of 1,05,299, Sinha got the votes of 329 MLAs with a vote count of 44,276, in the second round. Among the states where votes were counted were Andhra Pradesh, where Murmu received almost all the votes, besides Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, and Jharkhand.

Being the country's top constitutional post and the first citizen of the country, the President of India is entitled to various benefits, both in and after office.

PM Modi, some senior members of his Cabinet, and BJP chief J P Nadda are likely to meet NDA presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu on Thursday evening following her victory in the poll, PTI reported.