New Delhi, Aug 6 : The election process to choose the vice president of India is in progress on Saturday, and the prime minister Narendra Modi was the very first person to vote in the Parliament House. “Voted in the 2022 Vice President election in 2022,” Prime Minister Modi tweeted after casting the vote.
The vote, which began at 10 a.m.and will end around 5 p.m.After the counting of ballots in the evening, the new Vice President will be selected.
The Vice President is scheduled to swear in the swearing of his new position on the 11th of August after the term of the Vice President incumbent M Venkaiah Naidu ends on the 10th of August.
In the meantime, India’s second-largest Opposition party, following the Congress, the Trinamool Congress had decided to abstain from voting in protest of not being consultative’ about Margaret Alva’s candidacy.
The candidate from the opposition Alva is running against NDA’s candidate and former West Bengal governor Jagdeep Dhankhar in the elections.
NDA candidate Dhankhar has the support of regional parties, including the Janata Dal (United), YSRCP, BSP and Shiv Sena and is poised to win easily, as the opposition candidate Alva is assisted by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) and Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS).
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