Voting began for the Vice President election with PM Modi casting the first vote. NDA’s C P Radhakrishnan faces opposition candidate B Sudershan Reddy.

New Delhi: Voting for the vice presidential poll began on Tuesday, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi being the first to cast his vote at Parliament House. The poll is witnessing a direct contest between the ruling NDA’s candidate, CP Radhakrishnan, who was the Governor of Maharashtra and a senior BJP leader, and the opposition INDIA bloc’s nominee, B Sudarshan Reddy, a former Supreme Court judge.

The election became necessary after Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar resigned suddenly. Several senior leaders, including Union Ministers Rajnath Singh, Arjun Ram Meghwal, and Kiren Rijiju, Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairperson Harivansh, BJP MP Kangana Ranaut, and SP leader Ram Gopal Yadav, voted soon after the polling began.