Tribal leader set to be elected Indian President

Draupadi Murmu (AP)

Legislators are voting on India’s next president in an election expected to be won by a tribal woman from India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

The election of Draupadi Murmu is expected to be a formality as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP controls enough seats in federal and state legislatures to push its favoured candidate.