The brand new Vice President of the nation is Jagdeep Dhankhar. The previous Governor of Bengal defeated his opponent Margaret Alva by a giant margin. 371 votes are required to grow to be Vice President. Former West Bengal Governor Dhankhar received 528 votes. 70 % of the entire votes. By way of votes, he has left outgoing Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu behind.
780 MPs are imagined to vote within the vice presidential election. 543 members of Lok Sabha and 245 members of Rajya Sabha. Eight seats are vacant within the Rajya Sabha in the intervening time. 34 Trinamool MPs abstained from voting. Sisir and Dibyendu Adhikari solid their votes ignoring the celebration’s ban. An estimated 725 MPs determined the destiny of Jagdeep Dhankhar and Margaret Alva on Saturday.
The variety of MPs of NDA is 441. Amongst them BJP MP quantity is 394. 5 nominated MPs additionally voiced help for Dhankhar. The Congress, MK Stalin’s DMK, Lalu Prasad Yadav’s Rashtriya Janata Dal, Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Occasion, Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Occasion, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Occasion and the Left events supported opposition candidate Margaret Alva. 9 MLAs from Shiv Sena’s Uddhav Thackeray faction are additionally supporting Margaret. She has received 200 votes of opposition MPs.
