Dhankar Vs Alva For Vice Presidential Poll, Voting To Begin At 10 AM On Saturday

Member of each Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha will vote to elect the following Vice President of India on Saturday. Within the election, the Nationwide Democratic Alliance (NDA) led by the Bharatiya Janata Get together has pitted former West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankar towards Opposition choose Margaret Alva. Polling will start at 10 am at Sansad Bhawan tomorrow and conclude at 5 pm. Counting of votes will begin at 6 pm and outcomes could be introduced by 7:30 pm.

So far as numbers are concern, Dhankar is about for a straightforward win within the Vice Presidential election. The 80-year-old Alva is a senior Congress and has served as Governor of Rajasthan and Uttarakhand, whereas the 71-year-old Dhankhar is a Jat chief from Rajasthan with socialist background.

Here is All You Want To Know About Vice Presidential Elections:

1. Whereas polling shall be held from 10 am to five pm on Saturday, the ballots shall be counted instantly after that. By late Saturday night, the returning officer will announce the identify of the following Vice President of India. 

2. With quantity stacked in favour of the NDA nominee, Dhankar is predicted to get 515 votes with assist of some regional events just like the Janta Dal (United), YSRCP, BSP, AIADMK and Shiv Sena, making it a one-sided contest. 

3. Bahujan Samaj Get together supremo Mayawati on Wednesday introduced her get together’s assist to NDA’s vice presidential nominee. eeping in thoughts the bigger public curiosity and the get together motion, the Bahujan Samaj Get together has determined to assist Jagdeep Dhankhar within the vice presidential ballot, Mayawati mentioned.

4. In the meantime, Alva is prone to get round 200 votes with backing of regional get together Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), Aam Aadmi Get together, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) and AIMIM. 

5. The Trinamool Congress, which has 23 MPs in Lok Sabha and 16 in Rajya Sabha, has determined to avoid the vice presidential election alleging lack of consultations whereas deciding on the identify of Alva.

6. “If Parliament is to operate successfully, MPs, impartial of their events, should discover methods to rebuild belief and restore damaged communication amongst one another. In the long run, it’s the MPs who decide the character of our Parliament,” Alva mentioned in a contemporary video message forward of the election.

7. In the meantime, Dhankhar met a lot of BJP MPs at his residence earlier within the day, together with Sushil Kumar Modi, Gautam Gambhir, Rajyavardhan Rathore, Rajendra Agrawal, Pradeep Choudhary and Kartikeya Sharma, amongst others. He has been assembly get together MPs whereas looking for their assist for the ballot.

8. Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, together with nominated members, are eligible to vote within the vice presidential ballot. The electoral faculty within the vice presidential election includes a complete of 788 members of Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha. As all of the electors are members of each Homes of Parliament, the worth of vote of every MP could be the identical i.e. 1.

9. The vice presidential election is held in accordance with the system of proportional illustration by the use of a single transferable vote and the voting at such election is completed by secret poll. It additionally to be famous that no political get together can problem whip to its MPs within the matter of voting.

10. Although voting for Presidential election takes place at a number of places as elected MLAs, not nominated, additionally kind a part of the electoral faculty, in Vice Presidential election, voting takes place in solely at one place – Parliament Home. The time period of incumbent Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu ends on August 10. The Vice President of India can be the Chairperson of Rajya Sabha.

(With inputs from PTI.)