Aam Aadmi Party and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha’s announcement of support for joint vice-president candidate Margaret Alva gave a boost to the opposition camp on Wednesday, but the numbers are still in favor of NDA’s Jagdeep Dhankhar.
The Vice Presidential election to elect the successor of M Venkaiah Naidu will be held on 6 August. Results will come on the same day. According to the Electoral College arithmetic, Dhankhar has two-thirds of the votes in favor, as the BJP has 303 members in the Lok Sabha and 91 in the Rajya Sabha. With the support of some regional parties like Janata Dal (United), YSRCP, BSP, AIADMK and Shiv Sena, the NDA candidate is likely to get over 515 votes, which is enough for them to win a comfortable victory.
Alva is likely to get around 190-200 votes based on the support declared by the parties for her candidature so far. The Trinamool Congress, which has 23 MPs in the Lok Sabha and 16 in the Rajya Sabha, has decided to stay away from the vice-presidential election. Some regional parties like Telangana Rashtra Samithi and Telugu Desam Party have not yet shown their cards and may take a decision soon.
The Aam Aadmi Party, which is in power in Delhi and Punjab, on Wednesday announced its support to Alva. The party’s political affairs committee decided to “unanimously” support Alva after a meeting chaired by its national convener Arvind Kejriwal. “All Rajya Sabha members of the party will vote for the opposition candidate Margaret Alva on 6 August,” the party said.
AAP has 10 MPs in the Rajya Sabha but has no presence in the Lok Sabha after Bhagwant Mann resigned after becoming the Chief Minister of Punjab. JMM supremo Shibu Soren in a statement on Wednesday asked his MPs to vote in favor of former Union minister Alva during the August 6 elections. The JMM has a total of three MPs – two in the Rajya Sabha and one in the Lok Sabha.
Dhankhar has been meeting the party’s MPs before the elections, Alva has written to all the members of Parliament saying, if she is elected, she would like to build bridges between the parties, build consensus on national issues and restore the pride of Parliament. will help to In a letter to all the members of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, which make up the electoral college, Alva said the election of the Vice President should be seen as a plebiscite in the way Parliament operates and a breakdown of the fundamental democratic process. is on. Building consensus on important national issues.
“If elected as the Vice-President, I commit myself to work tirelessly to uphold the Constitution and strengthen our parliamentary democracy. As the Speaker of the Rajya Sabha, I am responsible for building bridges between various political parties, national Will work to build consensus on issues of importance and help restore the glory of Parliament,” she told the MPs in her appeal. All MPs of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, including nominated members, are elected in the Vice Presidential election.
At present there are a total of 543 MPs in the Lok Sabha and 237 in the Rajya Sabha, with eight vacancies, including three nominated members, and from Jammu and Kashmir, which does not have an assembly. The Vice President is also the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha. Both Dhankhar and Alva have been former MPs, former Union ministers and former governors.
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