Vice-Presidential Poll Live Updates: Parliamentarians to vote right now, numbers stacked in NDA’s candidate Jagdeep Dhankhar’s favour

NDA’s candidate for Vice President’s submit Jagdeep Dhankhar, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Express picture by Prem Nath Pandey)

In a recent video message forward of the polls, Alva mentioned: “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.”

The Vice-President additionally serves because the chairperson of Rajya Sabha. The electoral faculty within the Vice-Presidential election contains a complete of 788 members of each Houses of Parliament.

Unlike the Presidential election wherein voting takes place in a number of areas as elected MLAs, not nominated, additionally type a part of the electoral faculty, within the Vice-Presidential election, polling takes place solely in Parliament House.

Since all of the electors are members of each Houses of Parliament, the worth of vote of every MP can be the identical, which is, one, the Election Commission has mentioned.

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