Stage set for Vice President election, results to be out today
The members of Parliament are all set to elect the next Vice President of India on Tuesday, September 9, months after Jagdeep Dhankhar resigned from the post citing health reasons mid-way his term which was scheduled to end in 2027.
The choices in front of the Parliament are — Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA’s CP Radhakrishnan, who has served as Governor of several states, and Indian National Congress-led INDIA bloc’s Sudershan Reddy, a former Supreme Court judge.
The Vice President of India is elected by an electoral college, which consists of members of both Houses of Parliament, in accordance with the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote.
The voting in the Vice-President poll is done by secret ballot. The Electoral College to elect a person to the office of the Vice-President consists of all members of both Houses of Parliament.
Also, the Vice President of India is not a member of either House of Parliament or of a House of a Legislature of any state. If a member of either Lok Sabha or Rajya Sabha, or of a House of a Legislature of any state is elected to the post of Vice President, that person is deemed to have vacated their seat in that House on the date they enter the office as Vice President.
The election for the post of the Vice President is conducted by the Election Commission of India.