The unity of the opposition has been broken after the BJP nominated Ramnath Kovind by the Bharatiya Janata Party. Nitish Kumar's party Janata Dal United has announced support for the BJP-led coalition NDA candidate Ramnath Kovind for the presidential election. Chandrasekhar Rao of Telangana National Committee (TRS) leader and CM of Telangana gave his support to Kovind on Monday (June 19th). Naveen Patnaik's BJD has also supported Kovind.

BSP chief Mayawati has also said that if the Opposition does not stand the Dalit candidate, then she is positive about supporting Kovind. On the other hand, the opposition led by the Congress is looking for a candidate who can compete with Ramnath Kovind. Opposition attempts are being seen as an exercise to save face only because the figures are tilted in favor of BJP after the support of TRS, BJD and Janata Dal United.

The Presidential election does not come directly from the election like the general election. The presidential election is held under the electoral college in which the votes of all MPs and MLAs have the respective value. The vote of nominated MPs is not included in the presidential election. A total of 4120 legislators and 776 MPs will be included in the presidential election. The value of every MP's vote is 708, while the value of the MLA's vote is fixed on the basis of the population of the concerned state. The vote of MLAs is more in the state where there is more population. In order to win elections from 100 percent of the total votes, any candidate gets 51 percent votes.

BJP has 1352 MLAs and 337 MPs, whose vote is about 40.03 percent of the total votes. The Shiv Sena, which announces support to the BJP candidate on Tuesday (June 20th), has 63 MLAs and 21 MPs, whose vote percentage is 2.34. NDA has a total of 48.64 percent of votes, by voting for BJP's other parties. That is, the BJP should get about two and a half percent votes to win Kovind. The UPA has around 35.47 per cent of the vote share.

TRS has 82 MLAs and 14 MPs with total votes of 1.99. Naveen Patnaik's BJD has also supported Kovind's candidature. The BJD has 117 legislators and 28 MPs, and its total vote percentage is 2.98. Janata Dal United has 73 MLAs and 12 MPs, and their total vote percentage is 1.89.

After the support of BJD, TRS and Janata Dal United, BJP can get support from some small parties not included in Congress-led alliance UPA.

Let's take a look at those parties which can support BJP. AIADMK has 139 MLAs and 50 MPs and its total vote percentage is 5.36. YSRCP has 66 MLAs and 10 MPs and their total vote percentage is 1.53. The BSP has 19 MLAs and six MPs and its total vote percentage is 0.74. If these parties also get the BJP together, then it will have more than 60 percent votes and its candidate will win by a respectable margin.

If the BJP's candidate Kovind does not get the support of these parties, the defeat of the BJP candidate is certain.

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