New Delhi. Voting for the Vice Presidential election will be held on 9 September 2025. NDA candidate for this post is CP Radhakrishnan. Whereas, the opposition, former Supreme Court Justice B.K. Sudarshan Reddy has fielded. Voting will be held from 10 am on Tuesday morning for the Vice Presidential election. Voting will run till 5 pm. The count will also start only after the voting is over and the name of the new Vice President will be revealed by late night. Only Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha MPs will vote in the Vice President’s election. At present, according to the number game, NDA candidate CP Radhakrishnan’s victory looks easy.
Whip does not work in the election of the President, Vice President and Rajya Sabha MPs. In such a situation, MPs of any party are free to vote for any candidate for these three posts. Due to lack of whip, their membership is not in danger. If you talk about the number game, then the number of Lok Sabha MPs out of a total of 782 MPs is 543. Among them, NDA has 293 MPs. Whereas, there are 234 MPs from the opposition and 15 MPs from other small parties. At the same time, there are a total of 240 MPs in the Rajya Sabha. Of these, NDA has 134 MPs in favor. Whereas, the opposition has 78 and the number of MPs from other parties is 28. In this way, the NDA has 35 more 427 MPs with a majority. At the same time, the opposition has 80 less than the majority ie 312 votes.
Parliament has 43 members of other parties and independents. Even if he went with the opposition, even then the victory of NDA candidate CP Radhakrishnan is certain. Provided that the opposition does not take the big faction with the NDA MPs. According to sources, Telangana’s Bharat Rashtra Samithi i.e. BRS can stay away from the Vice Presidential election. BRS has 3 MPs in Rajya Sabha. At the same time, YSRCP, party of former Telangana CM YS Jaganmohan Reddy, may also vote for NDA candidate CP Radhakrishnan. This indication has been received due to YSRCP Parliamentary Party leader YV Subba Reddy’s meeting with CP Radhakrishnan on Sunday night. YSRCP has 4 MPs in Lok Sabha and 7 MPs in Rajya Sabha. At the same time, the head of BJD and CM of Odisha Naveen Patnaik are also in Delhi for private work. Naveen Patnaik’s BJD has 7 MPs in Rajya Sabha. If they also vote for CP Radhakrishnan, then their victory will be further confirmed.
