The Election Commission announced on Wednesday that it had started the process of holding elections for the post of Vice President for less than 48 hours of former VP. Jagdeep Dhankhar’s sudden mid -term resignation On Monday evening.
In a statement, the EC said that the Ministry of Home Affairs had informed Dhik’s resignation on Tuesday.
“Under the Election Commission of India, Article 324, it is mandatory for the office of the Vice Chairman of India to conduct the election. The election for the office of the Deputy Chairman of India is governed by the President and Vice-President Election Act, 1952, and the rules are said to be the election commission, as of 1974, in 1974, as per the elections of the President and Vice Presidents, as per the election of the President and Vice President.
It states that once the preparation is completed, the election schedule will be announced as soon as possible. The activities that have been started are the preparation of the election college-including the nomination members of the Rajya Sabha and the Lok Sabha to finalize the Returning Officer/Assistant Returning Officer, and the preparation and spread of background materials in all previous Vice Presidential elections.
Under the President and Vice-Chairman Election Act, the Election Commission is bound by the 30 to 32-day statutory timeline, when it informs the election schedule. The law allows 14 days to file nominations, followed by a two -day window for a day investigation and for the return of the candidates. If a survey is required, it should not be held before 15 days after the withdrawal time frame – this results in at least 32 days from the notification.
The Vice President is elected by an electoral college made from both houses of Parliament-Local Sabha and Rajya Sabha members, which also includes enrolled members. Unlike a presidential election, state assemblies do not participate.
Voting is held in Parliament House in New Delhi by secret voting, using a system of proportional representation with a single transferable vote. Each MP gets votes by ranking candidates in the course of preference. All votes carry the same price.
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To be declared elected, a candidate must reach the required minimum number of votes – called quota. Its calculation is calculated by dividing the total number of valid votes from two and adding one (part, if any, is ignored). If a candidate does not cross the quota in the first round, one is first abolished with the first-virtue votes, and their votes are transferred to the remaining candidates based on the second priorities. The process continues until a candidate crosses the quota.
Dhankhar was elected to the post of VP in 2022, a former Governor of West Bengal and a lawyer by profession. His term was to end in August 2027. Citing health concerns, he wrote an resignation letter to President Drupadi Murmu on Monday evening when he presided over the Rajya Sabha proceedings.
According to sources, on Monday evening, there was friction between the government and Dhankhar on its decision to accept the speed of an opposition-fundamental impeachment against Justice Yashwant Verma in the upper house on Monday evening, even the BJP was preparing to pursue its pace with the support of opposition MPs in the Lok Sabha.
Till now the only public statement of the government was Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s post on X: “Mr. Jagdeep Dhikar ji has got many opportunities to serve our country in various capabilities as the vice -president of India.”
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