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As NDA's presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu is leading the presidential race, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Dharmendra Pradhan said India is going to "create history" today. Talking to reporters, Pradhan said, "Immense joy amid the deprived section of society, tribals, women &eastern India that for the first time the true meaning of democracy is coming to the fore. A leader from such a background will reach the nation's highest post. It's an achievement for democracy. Nation is going to create history. The 15th President will be officially announced shortly. Nobody has any doubt in mind. Daughter of a tribal family coming from a very ordinary house in Odisha, Droupadi Murmu will be elected as the President. Of the total 748 votes of MPs, as many as 15 votes found invalid during counting, said Rajya Sabha Secretary General PC Mody, who is the chief returning officer for the poll. Out of the remaining votes, BJP-led NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu got 540, while Opposition's Yashwant Sinha received 208 votes, Mody said while briefing reporters about the trends after the votes of the MPs are counted. After the counting of votes of MPs concluded, showing BJP-led NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu is leading over Opposition nominee Yashwant Sinha, the counting of votes of MLAs has begun.Presidential Election 2022 Result LIVE Updates: 'We are sure that Droupadi Murmu is going to be the next president. We are just waiting for the result,' says Rairangpur, the hometown of Murmu. Listen in to some of the voices coming in from Rairangpur.BJP-led NDA candidate Droupadi Mumru leads the race to become the 15th President of India, reported Times Now. As the odds are clearly stacked in favour of Murmu, she will be the first woman from the tribal community to occupy the country's top constitutional post, if elected. Incumbent President Ram Nath Kovind's tenure ends on July 24 and the new president will take oath on July 25. The counting of votes is under at the Parliament House. Currently, the votes of MPs are being counted. It will be followed by state votes' counting, according to reports.Counting of votes for the presidential election begins in the Parliament House in Delhi after sorting of ballot papers from all states. The result will decide the successor of incumbent president Ram Nath Kovind. The process of counting the votes started at 11 am in room number 63 in Parliament House, where the ballot boxes brought from all the state assemblies were kept. While the counting of votes of the members of both houses of Parliament will begin first, those of the states will be counted in the alphabetical order.As the counting of votes for the recently-held Presidential election is underway at the Parliament House in Delhi, a number of Congress workers have been detained after they protested outside the Enforcement Directorate's office in the national capital today against its summons to party president Sonia Gandhi in a money laundering case.The polling for the presidential election was held on July 18 at 31 locations, including the Parliament House and 30 centres within state legislative assemblies. The voting began at 10 am and ended at 5 pm at the Parliament House and at designated places in the capitals of all states besides the union territories of Puducherry and Delhi. Out of 736 electors comprising 727 MPs and nine MLAs permitted by the Election Commission to vote at the Parliament house, 728 (719 MPs and nine MLAs) cast their votes. The total turnout at Parliament House was 98.91 percent.