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Vice presidential poll: Ansari has edge over
Jaswant Singh
Monday August 06, 2012 05:30:18 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: As many as
787 members of parliament will vote Tuesday to elect India's 14th
vice president. In the poll, UPA nominee and incumbent Hamid
Ansari appears to have a clear edge over his rival Jaswant Singh,
backed by the opposition NDA, according to sources.
The result will be out Tuesday evening.
The sources claimed the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA)
nominee has the support of 500 out of the total 787 members in
both houses of parliament, who constitute the electoral college
for the vice presidential election.
The Lok Sabha has a total strength of 545 members, including
speaker. It has two vacancies -- Pranab Mukherjee resigned after
being elected the 13th president of India and Vijay Bahuguna
resigned to be co-opted as council member after he was made chief
minister of Uttarakhand. A Bharatiya Janata Party member from
Bellary, Karnataka, J. Shanta, facing a court case, would not be
able to vote. The Rajya Sabha has 245 members.
UPA constituents like the Nationalist Congress Party, the DMK, the
Rashtriya Lok Dal and the National Conference are backing Ansari
but the Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee is yet to clarify
her stand.
Parties supporting the UPA from outside like the Samajwadi Party,
the Bahujan Samaj Party, Rashtriya Janata Dal and the Lok
Janshakti Party are also backing Ansari.
The Janata Dal (Secular) has also pledged support to Ansari, who
has been a career diplomat and scholar.
The Communist Party of India-Marxist, which had supported Ansari
in 2007, is backing him for a second term but the Revolutionary
Socialist Party will abstain from voting.
National Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidate Jaswant Singh is
supported by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and allies like the
Akali Dal, Janata Dal (United) and the Shiv Sena.
The Biju Janata Dal and AIADMK, which had supported opposition
nominee P.A. Sangma in the presidential poll, are yet to declare
their support to Singh.
A former army man, Singh is a veteran BJP leader and has headed
the key foreign and finance ministries during the 1998-2004 NDA
rule.
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