Vice Presidential Election 2025: Voting for the Vice Presidential election will be held on September 9 and the results will be declared on the same, the Election Commission announced earlier this month. Both the ruling and opposition camps are strategising to select their respective candidates for the Vice President post, which got vacated after Jagdeep Dhankar’s sudden resignation in July.
Now, as per media reports, the INDIA bloc is preparing to choose a non-Congress candidate for the upcoming vice-presidential election. The primary objective behind this move is believed to be bringing all opposition parties together to consolidate anti-BJP votes. It is noteworthy that the Aam Aadmi Party holds at least 11 votes in this election.
Who Will the Opposition Field as Vice Presidential Candidate?
According to a report by Jagran.com, a senior opposition leader, who attended a key opposition meeting on Thursday, referred to the previous vice-presidential election and the Congress’s choice of former Union Minister Margaret Alva as the candidate. However, he said, “we cannot repeat the mistake of the last vice-presidential election.” At that time, the Trinamool Congress (TMC), the second-largest opposition party in Parliament, had refused to support Alva’s candidature.
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Dinner Meeting at Rahul Gandhi’s Residence
On Thursday, opposition leader Rahul Gandhi hosted a dinner party at his residence. During the event, a meeting of opposition leaders was also held where they discssed the issue of the vice-presidential election. It was attended by Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, Akhilesh Yadav, Uddhav Thackeray, Farooq Abdullah, TMC MPs Abhishek Banerjee and Derek O’Brien, CPI(M) general secretary MA Baby, and 14 other senior opposition leaders.
Will TMC Field Its Own Candidate?
According to another opposition leader, TMC has expressed reluctance to field its own candidate in the vice-presidential election. Recently, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge told the media that the INDIA alliance would take a collective decision on its nominee for the post.