Rajya Sabha Secretary General PC Modi appointed as Returning Officer for VP election. Polls to be conducted by MPs as electoral college following constitutional mandate for immediate vacancy filling.
Senior Congress leader and former Union minister Margaret Alva is the opposition’s joint candidate for the August 6 vice presidential election. Read further on Dynamite News:
Voting for the Vice Presidential election ends.
Counting for Vice Presidential elections begins, 98.21% polling has been observed till 5 pm in Vice Presidential elections.
The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) expressed confidence over winning the Vice Presidential polls and said their nominee M. Venkaiah Naidu will do justice to the post.
Voting for Vice-Presidential election begins at 10 am. Prime Minister Modi casts his vote.
The name of the next vice president of India will be known on Saturday evening after members of Parliament cast their ballot during the day in Parliament House.
“The Opposition in India is a very large entity. There are opposition parties at the Centre and states who hold different perspectives…” Gopalkrishna said.
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