BJP, which heads the coalition government in the state, would be the lone NDA ally in the state to vote for P A Sangma.
The lone MLA of the Marxist Coordination Committee Arup Chatterjee said he would vote for Mukherjee while the lone CPI (ML-Liberation) member Vinod Kumar Singh said he would abstain.
"Polling arrangements are ready for 81 MLAs and one Congress MP, Pradeep Kumar Balmachu who has chosen to vote here," Assembly Secretariat