Election for Vice President on August 6, says Election Commission

By PTI

NEW DELHI: Polling to elect the following vp might be held on August 6 and counting of votes will happen the identical day, the Election Commission mentioned on Wednesday.

The BJP-led NDA has a transparent edge within the ballot through which members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, together with nominated members, are eligible to vote.

The notification for the election might be issued on July 5, which is able to set in movement the nomination course of. The final date for submitting of nomination papers might be July 19.

The scrutiny of nomination papers might be executed on July 20 and the final date for withdrawal of candidature is July 22. The time period of incumbent M Venkaiah Naidu ends on August 10. The vp can also be the chairperson of Rajya Sabha.

The electoral school within the vice presidential election includes a complete of 788 members of each Houses of Parliament.

Since all of the electors are members of each Houses of Parliament, the worth of vote of every MP could be the identical — one, the EC mentioned.

The 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 by secret poll.

There is not any idea of open voting on this election and displaying the poll to anybody below any circumstances within the case of presidential and vice-presidential elections is completely prohibited, the EC cautioned, including that events can’t subject whip to its MPs within the matter of voting.

A nomination paper of a candidate needs to be subscribed by at the least 20 electors as proposers and by at the least different 20 electors as seconders.

An elector can subscribe to just one nomination paper of a candidate as both a proposer or a seconder. A candidate can file a most of 4 nomination papers. The safety deposit for the election is Rs 15,000.

Unlike the presidential ballot the place voting takes place in a number of places as elected MLAs, not nominated, additionally type a part of the electoral school, within the vice presidential election, voting takes place in Parliament House.

The schedule for the vice presidential election was finalised at a gathering of Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar and Election Commissioner Anup Chandra Pandey.