NDA candidate and former Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar will be the next Vice President of the country. Dhankhar was declared elected at 7.40 pm after voting on Saturday and counting began at 6 pm. Jagdeep Dhankhar has registered a big victory over Venkaiah Naidu in the last Vice Presidential election. Dhankhar has got more than 70 per cent votes. While Venkaiah Naidu got close to 68 percent of the votes.
According to sources, Jagdeep Dhankhar got 528 votes and Margaret Alva got 182 votes. While 15 votes were found invalid. At the same time, Margaret Alva had to bear the brunt of lack of unity among the opposition parties and she was defeated. Voting for the Vice Presidential election began at 10 am on Saturday and went on till 5 pm. 725 MPs voted in the election of the Vice President. About 93 percent of the MPs cast their votes in the voting on Saturday, while 55 MPs did not vote.
In the presidential election, the Returning Officer officially declared the results and said that there were a total of 780 electors and 725 cast their votes, which was 92.45 percent of the total votes. While 55 did not cast their vote. Of these 55 absent MPs, 34 are from TMC, 2 each from BJP-SP and Shiv Sena and one from BSP. Trinamool Congress (TMC) with 36 MPs had decided not to vote in the election. But Shubhendu Adhikari’s father Shishir Adhikari and Dibyendu Adhikari voted, that is, 34 TMC MPs did not vote. Two BJP MPs did not cast their votes. Sunny Deol and Sanjay Dhotre did not vote. He could not even cast his vote in the presidential election.
