Highlights
- BJP President JP Nadda has requested MPs to come ready for the monsoon session of Parliament
- He has additionally requested MPs to keep away from taking depart through the session
- Also, AAP stated that they are going to prolong their help to the opposition’s candidate Yashwant Sinha
President Election 2022: Ahead of the July 18 presidential elections, the Karnataka BJP MLAs have been shifted to a non-public hotel in Bengaluru on Saturday night. Following the directives of the get together excessive command, BJP chief whip M Satish Reddy requested MLAs to stay within the hotel till Monday morning earlier than leaving for Vidhana Soudha to vote.
“High command wants to send out a message of how serious our party is about Droupadi Murmu’s candidature,” a BJP MLA stated.
State BJP unit has organised a mock voting drill for the MLAs on Sunday. Three individuals, who have been skilled at a celebration session in Delhi on how voters ought to go about their train, will conduct the drill on Sunday, sources stated.
Meanwhile, BJP president JP Nadda held a dinner assembly with get together MPs and requested them to guarantee 100 per cent voting within the upcoming presidential election, sources stated. Nadda additionally instructed the MPs to take care that no mistake is made whereas casting votes within the presidential and vice presidential polls, they stated.
The BJP president requested the MPs to come ready for the monsoon session of Parliament beginning July 18 and keep away from taking depart through the session.
Also, the Aam Aadmi Party stated that they are going to prolong their help to the opposition’s presidential candidate Yashwant Sinha within the upcoming Presidential elections which can happen within the nation.
“AAP will support Opposition’s Presidential candidate Yashwant Sinha. We respect Droupadi Murmu, but we will vote for Yashwant Sinha,” AAP MP Sanjay Singh stated.
President and Vice-President polls
In June, the Election Commission of India introduced the schedule for the Election of the sixteenth President of India. The polls can be held on July 18.
The counting can be taken up on July 21.
The time period of workplace of President Ram Nath Kovind will finish on July 24.
The President is elected by an electoral school comprising elected members of Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha and State Legislative Assemblies. It additionally contains the Legislative Assemblies of Delhi and Puducherry.
Voting for the Vice Presidential election can be held on August 6. The BJP-led NDA has named tribal chief Droupadi Murmu as its presidential candidate. Also within the working is joint Opposition candidate Yashwant Sinha.
Earlier within the day, the BJP named West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar, a Jat chief from Rajasthan with socialist background, because the NDA’s vice presidential candidate.
(With inputs from ANI)
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