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Voting for the Vice Presidential election started at 10 am, PM Modi cast his vote first, former PM Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi cast their vote

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Voting for the Vice Presidential election started at 10 am, PM Modi cast his vote first, former PM Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi cast their vote

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Digital Desk, New Delhi. Voting for the Vice-President’s election began in Parliament from 10 am today. The votes are cast by the members of both the houses of the Parliament in the election. First of all, after reaching the Parliament House, Prime Minister Narendra Modi cast his vote.

Congress Interim President Sonia Gandhi casts her vote in Parliament for the Vice Presidential election

Former Prime Minister and Congress MP Dr Manmohan Singh casts his vote in Parliament for the Vice Presidential election

Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal and BJP National President J.P. Nadda casts his vote.

Home Minister Amit Shah, Union Minister Prahlad Joshi, Union Minister Rajiv Chandrashekhar and Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia cast their vote for the Vice Presidential election.

Union Ministers Jitendra Singh and Ashwini Vaishnav cast their vote in Parliament for the Vice Presidential election

Voting started at 10 am and will continue till 5 pm. After that the counting of votes will be done. And the results will be announced. The new Vice President will take oath on August 11.

The main contest for the Vice Presidential election is between the NDA candidate Jagdeep Dhankhar and the opposition candidate Margaret Alva. NDA candidate Jagdeep Dhankhar has support from other parties including Biju Janata Dal, YSR Congress, AIADMK, Telugu Desam Party and BSP.

Former Prime Minister and Congress MP Dr Manmohan Singh arrives in Parliament to cast his vote for the Vice Presidential election

In the Vice Presidential election, 233 elected MPs of Rajya Sabha, 12 nominated MPs in Rajya Sabha and 543 MPs of Lok Sabha can cast a total of 788 votes, but due to the dissolution of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly, at present four seats of Jammu and Kashmir quota are vacant in the Rajya Sabha. One seat is also vacant due to the resignation of the Chief Minister of Tripura. Thus the current number of elected members is only 228. At the same time, three seats of nominated MPs are also vacant. Right now only 780 will be able to cast their votes.



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