Vice President Election 2022: Voting Begins Today

1. Vice President Elections 2022

Vice-President Elections 2022 will start on 6th August 2022 as per the announcement made by the Election Commission of India. Article 56(1) of the Constitution of India such that the Vice President of India shall remain in office for five years. The former Vice President of India Venkaiah Naidu has completed five years of duty and has to be replaced by Vice-President Elections.

The two nominees for the Vice-President Elections are Jagdeep Dhankhar of Bhartiya Janta Party from NDA Alliance and Margaret Alva of Indian National Congress from United Opposition Alliance. Jagdeep Dhankhar was nominated as the NDA candidate by BJP on 16th July 2022, he was the then serving Governor of West Bengal. On 17th July 2022, Margaret Alva was nominated as the Vice Presidental candidate by the United Opposition Alliance.

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Vice President Election 2022: Election Schedule

Event	Date	Day
Issue of Election Commission’s Notification calling the Election	5 July 2022	Tuesday
Last date for making nominations	19 July 2022	Tuesday
Date for scrutiny of nominations	20 July 2022	Wednesday
Last date for withdrawal of candidatures	22 July 2022	Friday
The date on which a poll shall be taken (if necessary)	6 August 2022	Saturday
The date on which counting shall be taken (if necessary)	6 August 2022	Saturday

Vice President Election 2022: Candidates

NDA has nominated Jagdeep Dhankhar and Opposition has nominated Margaret Alva for the Vice President Election 2022. In the below-given tables, you can get to know about the two candidates in brief.

Categories	Candidates
Name	Jagdeep Dhankhar	Margaret Alva
Born	18th May 1951	14th April 1942
Home State	Rajasthan	Karnataka
Party	Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP)	Indian National Congress (INC)
Alliance	National Democratic Alliance (NDA)	United Opposition
Nomination Date	16 July 2022	17 July 2022
Previous Positions	1993-98: Member of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly from Kishangarh 1989-91: Lok Sabha MP from Jhunjhunu 1990-91: Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs 2019-22: Governor of West Bengal	1974-98: Rajya Sabha MP, Karnataka 1984-85, 1993-96: Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs 1985-89: Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports 1991-96: Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances, and Pensions 1999-2004: Lok sabha MP, Kanara 2014: Governor of Goa 2014: Governor of Gujarat 2009-12: Governor of Uttarakhand 2012-14: Governor of Rajasthan

Vice President Election 2022: Electoral Voting

The voting for Vice President Election 2022 has begun on 6th August 2022 in the Parliament of India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi casts his vote for the next Vice President of India followed by Union Minister Jitendra Singh, Ashwini Vaishnav, and Arjun Ram Meghwal. TMC abstains from voting for the Vice President Elections 2022 as the TMC MP and Parliamentary Party leader Sudip Bandopadhyay write to Sisir Adhikari, MP, Lok Sabha.

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