Two days after Jagdeep Dhankhar resigned from the Vice President, the Indian Election Commission (ECI) on Wednesday 23rd July said it started the process of organizing vice -presidential elections. ECI also said it began to create an election university for vice -presidential elections.
The election university will include members of both houses of Parliament – Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. All elected and nominated MPs are eligible to vote in the vice -presidential elections.
Here is a view of who holds the advantage in the upcoming vice -presidential elections and how the numbers add up in both houses of parliament.
Vice Presidential Elections: Explained Game Number
India vice president is elected members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. Currently, 543 members of Lok Sabha have one free space-basirhat in the west Bengal-Zatímco 245-member Rajya Sabha has five vacancies-four from Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) and one of Panjab.
The effective force of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha together is 782, without including vacancies. The winning candidate will require 392 votes to win a vice presidential candidate, given the whole house and all who perform their franchise. Also read | Jagdeep Dhankhar resigns as a vice -president. What will be next? Who now lives Rajya Sabha?
NDA vs Opposition: Who enjoys the edge?
In Lok Sabha, the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) has the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Support of 293 members. In Rajya Sabha, NDA fits comfortably with the support of 129 members according to the PTI press agency.
The ruling alliance commands the support of 422 members – significantly above the majority for NDA candidates to conveniently win the vice presidential elections. Also read | Who will be another vice president? Harivank, Nitish, Arif among those who are in the race to replace Jagdeep Dhankhar
Congress has 99 members in Lok Sabha and 27 in Rajya Sabha. With the support of the Indian block, the opposition number increases to more than 350 – if some of them do not overcome or delay the vote. The AAM AADMI (AAP) party recently left the Indian block.
The ruling NDA has a comfortable advantage in the vice presidential race.
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