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Election of Vice President
July 18 , 2017
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- The tenure of Hamid Ansari, Vice President of India ends by this August .
- He has been Vice President of India for 10 years, since 2007. Election for new Vice President is scheduled to be held on August 5, 2017.
- Venkaiah Naidu is contesting on behalf of the ruling National Democratic Alliance.
- Mahatma Gandhi's grandson and former Governor of West Bengal, Gopala Krishna Gandhi is contesting on behalf of opposition parties including Congress.
- For the election of the vice president, the procedures involved are fairly similar to that in the Presidential poll.
- But unlike the Presidential poll, the election for the Vice President is conducted through a secret ballot where only members of both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha get to vote.
- Members of Parliament will use special pens for marking their choice. Votes marked with any other pen are liable to be rejected.
- In the Presidential poll, elected members of all state legislative assemblies, including Delhi and Puducherry, also participate in the voting.
- A person needs to satisfy the following prerequisites to become a Vice-President.
- Needs to be a citizen of India
- Is at least 35 years old or above
- Is qualified to become a member of the Rajya Sabha
- A candidate’s nomination paper needs to be subscribed by at least 20 electors as proposers and at least another 20 electors as seconders.
- And a security deposit of Rs 15,000 will be collected from each candidate.
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