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New Delhi, Aug 6: The voting for the election of India’s next Vice President has begun on Saturday morning at the Parliament. It started at 10 am and will continue till 5 pm after which the votes will be counted
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Minister Jitendra Singh and Ashwini Vaishnaw also cast their vote for the Vice Presidential election at the Parliament.
Members of both Houses of Parliament will cast their vote to choose the new vice president as the current vice president, M Venkaiah Naidu will leave office on August 10.
#JagdeepDhankhar vs #MargaretAlva | Voting for the Vice Presidential election begins.
Votes will be counted today itself and the next Vice-President will take the oath of office on August 11 – a day after the term of the incumbent Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu ends. pic.twitter.com/bm2ILH5dYz
— ANI (@ANI) August 6, 2022
Delhi | Former Prime Minister and Congress MP Dr Manmohan Singh arrives at the Parliament to cast his vote for the Vice Presidential election. pic.twitter.com/OK0GsY5npL
— ANI (@ANI) August 6, 2022
While Margaret Alva has been nominated by the opposition, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has named West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar as their vice presidential candidate.
The next Vice-President will take the oath of office on August 11 – a day after the term of the incumbent Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu ends.
While Dhankhar (71) is a Jat leader from Rajasthan with a socialist background, Alva (80) is a Congress veteran who has held the offices of the governor of Rajasthan and Uttarakhand. Dhankhar and the TMC administration have been at odds over several issues ever since the BJP-controlled Centre named him as the Bengal Governor in July 2019.
