Vice presidential polls: Alva will get AAP, TRS help; numbers stacked in favour of NDA’s Dhankhar
6 min readBy PTI
NEW DELHI: Members of Parliament of each homes will vote on Saturday to elect the subsequent Vice President of India in an election the place NDA candidate Jagdeep Dhankhar is pitted towards Opposition decide Margaret Alva.
With numbers stacked in favour of the NDA, former West Bengal governor Dhankhar is ready for a straightforward win.
Cracks had been seen in opposition unity as Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress determined to abstain from voting alleging lack of consultations whereas deciding on the identify of Alva.
The 80-year-old Alva is a Congress veteran and has served as governor of Rajasthan and Uttarakhand, whereas the 71-year-old Dhankhar is a Jat chief from Rajasthan with socialist background.
Alva, nevertheless, obtained the backing of regional celebration Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) on Friday, two days after Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) lent their help to the opposition candidate.
The AIMIM has additionally prolonged its help to Alva.
With the help of some regional events just like the Janta Dal (United), YSRCP, BSP, AIADMK and Shiv Sena, the NDA nominee is more likely to recover from 515 votes, sufficient for a snug win for him.
Alva is more likely to recover from 200 votes, going by the help introduced by events for her candidature thus far.
The Trinamool Congress, which has 23 MPs in Lok Sabha and 16 in Rajya Sabha, has determined to keep away from the vice presidential election.
“If Parliament is to function effectively, MPs, independent of their parties, must find ways to rebuild trust and restore broken communication amongst each other. In the end, it is the MPs who determine the character of our Parliament,” Alva stated in a contemporary video message forward of elections.
She stated she has seen debates and variations and but an environment of give and take, which is now missing.
“The time has come for all parties to get together and to restore the faith and the trust in each other and restore the dignity of Parliament,” Alva stated in her contemporary attraction to MPs.
Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge additionally hosted a dinner on Thursday evening to thank all opposition MPs who’re supporting Alva.
Dhankhar, alternatively met quite a few BJP MPs at his residence on Friday.
These embody Sushil Kumar Modi, Gautam Gambhir, Rajyavardhan Rathore, Rajendra Agrawal, Pradeep Choudhary and Kartikeya Sharma, amongst others.
He has been assembly celebration MPs whereas in search of their help for the ballot.
While polling will likely be held from 10 am to five pm on Saturday, the ballots will likely be counted instantly after that.
By late Saturday night, the returning officer will announce the identify of the subsequent vp.
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, together with nominated members, are eligible to vote within the vice presidential ballot.
The time period of incumbent M Venkaiah Naidu ends on August 10.
The vp can be the chairperson of Rajya Sabha.
The electoral faculty 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 Election Commission has stated.
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 isn’t any idea of open voting on this election and displaying the poll to anybody underneath any circumstances within the case of presidential and vice-presidential elections is completely prohibited, the EC has cautioned, including that events can not challenge whip to its MPs within the matter of voting.
Unlike the presidential ballot the place voting takes place in a number of areas as elected MLAs, not nominated, additionally kind a part of the electoral faculty, within the vice presidential election, voting takes place in Parliament House.
NEW DELHI: Members of Parliament of each homes will vote on Saturday to elect the subsequent Vice President of India in an election the place NDA candidate Jagdeep Dhankhar is pitted towards Opposition decide Margaret Alva.
With numbers stacked in favour of the NDA, former West Bengal governor Dhankhar is ready for a straightforward win.
Cracks had been seen in opposition unity as Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress determined to abstain from voting alleging lack of consultations whereas deciding on the identify of Alva.
The 80-year-old Alva is a Congress veteran and has served as governor of Rajasthan and Uttarakhand, whereas the 71-year-old Dhankhar is a Jat chief from Rajasthan with socialist background.
Alva, nevertheless, obtained the backing of regional celebration Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) on Friday, two days after Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) lent their help to the opposition candidate.
The AIMIM has additionally prolonged its help to Alva.
With the help of some regional events just like the Janta Dal (United), YSRCP, BSP, AIADMK and Shiv Sena, the NDA nominee is more likely to recover from 515 votes, sufficient for a snug win for him.
Alva is more likely to recover from 200 votes, going by the help introduced by events for her candidature thus far.
The Trinamool Congress, which has 23 MPs in Lok Sabha and 16 in Rajya Sabha, has determined to keep away from the vice presidential election.
“If Parliament is to function effectively, MPs, independent of their parties, must find ways to rebuild trust and restore broken communication amongst each other. In the end, it is the MPs who determine the character of our Parliament,” Alva stated in a contemporary video message forward of elections.
She stated she has seen debates and variations and but an environment of give and take, which is now missing.
“The time has come for all parties to get together and to restore the faith and the trust in each other and restore the dignity of Parliament,” Alva stated in her contemporary attraction to MPs.
Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge additionally hosted a dinner on Thursday evening to thank all opposition MPs who’re supporting Alva.
Dhankhar, alternatively met quite a few BJP MPs at his residence on Friday.
These embody Sushil Kumar Modi, Gautam Gambhir, Rajyavardhan Rathore, Rajendra Agrawal, Pradeep Choudhary and Kartikeya Sharma, amongst others.
He has been assembly celebration MPs whereas in search of their help for the ballot.
While polling will likely be held from 10 am to five pm on Saturday, the ballots will likely be counted instantly after that.
By late Saturday night, the returning officer will announce the identify of the subsequent vp.
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, together with nominated members, are eligible to vote within the vice presidential ballot.
The time period of incumbent M Venkaiah Naidu ends on August 10.
The vp can be the chairperson of Rajya Sabha.
The electoral faculty 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 Election Commission has stated.
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 isn’t any idea of open voting on this election and displaying the poll to anybody underneath any circumstances within the case of presidential and vice-presidential elections is completely prohibited, the EC has cautioned, including that events can not challenge whip to its MPs within the matter of voting.
Unlike the presidential ballot the place voting takes place in a number of areas as elected MLAs, not nominated, additionally kind a part of the electoral faculty, within the vice presidential election, voting takes place in Parliament House.
