More than ten days after the sudden resignation of Jagdeep Dhankha as the Vice President of India, the India Election Commission (ECI) published a plan for the Vice Presidential elections 1 August to occupy an unoccupied place.
The vice president holds the office for five years from the day he enters his office. However, Article 68 (2) of the Constitution is stated that in the event of death, resignation or removal of the vice -president, the elections are held as soon as possible after the occurrence of free space.
Dhankhar’s term was until 2027, but resigned for two years of his term. The new VP will be elected for the entire five -year term.
In accordance with the constitutional provisions and the relevant laws and rules, the Indian Election Commission published a plan for the 17th vice -presidential elections. If necessary, public opinion surveys will be held for election of another vice president of India.
Qualifications required by candidate for public opinion contest surveys:
a) Become a citizen of India.
b) completed at the age of 35.
c) Being eligible to be a member of Rajya Sabha.
d) shall not hold any office for profit under the Indian government or the government of any state or under any local or other authority subject to the inspection of any of these governments.
Conditions for candidates submitting nomination:
1. Applicant’s nomination submission must be a regulation of at least twenty voters as petitioners and at least twenty voters as seconds. The nomination must be submitted to the returning officer, between 11:00 and 15:00 on any day appointed for this purpose – either by the candidate or any of its petitioners or secondaries.
2. The candidate must submit a security deposit £15 000 returning officer in cash or other legal means for elections.
3) The voters must mark the ballot only with this particular pen and not by other pen.
4) ECI appointed Secretary General Rajy Sabha as a returning officer for VP elections.
5) Political parties cannot issue a whip for voting in VP elections.
6) The counting of the votes will take place in Nový Delhi under the supervision of a returning officer. After completing the counting, he signs and issues the return of the elections.
How do the numbers accumulate at the election school?
According to the details, the election university consists of 233 elected members of Rajya Sabha, 12 nominated members of Rajya Sabha and 543 elected members of Lok Sabha for 17.
Now that the data is outdoors, the NDA and the Indian block nominate their candidates.
Currently, the ruling National Democratic Alliance led by BJP (NDA) has most voters. There are fair chances that NDA candidate will be another vice president of India.
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