{"id":31648,"date":"2025-08-10T12:53:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T12:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/?p=31648"},"modified":"2025-08-10T12:53:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T12:53:38","slug":"rajya-sabha-has-vacancies-from-jk-during-vice-presidential-poll-for-second-consecutive-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/rajya-sabha-has-vacancies-from-jk-during-vice-presidential-poll-for-second-consecutive-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajya Sabha Has Vacancies From J&#038;K During Vice Presidential Poll For Second Consecutive Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Aug 11: The four Rajya Sabha seats from Jammu and Kashmir will remain vacant during the vice presidential election.<br \/>\nThe members of Parliament from both the Houses will elect the 17th vice president on September 9.<br \/>\nThe four seats from the Union Territory are vacant as the Election Commission has so far not held biennial polls to fill up the vacancies nearly 10 months after Assembly elections were held in Jammu and Kashmir.<br \/>\nMLAs elect Rajya Sabha members of their respective states.<br \/>\nThe Union Territory has been unrepresented in the Upper House of Parliament since February 15, 2021, the day when Ghulam Nabi Azad and Nazir Ahmed Laway finished their terms. Two other members, Fayaz Ahmed Mir and Shamsheer Singh Manhas, had completed their terms on February 10, the same year.<br \/>\nJagdeep Dhankhar, who was elected as the vice president in 2022, quit on July 21, citing health issues. His term was till August 2027.<br \/>\nThe vice president is elected by the members of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, with nominated members of the Upper House also eligible to vote. At present, there are no nominated members in the Lok Sabha.<br \/>\nThe 543-member Lok Sabha has one vacant seat \u2014 Basirhat in West Bengal \u2014 while there are six vacancies in the 245-member Rajya Sabha. Of the six vacancies in the Rajya Sabha, four are from Jammu and Kashmir, and one each from Punjab and Jharkhand.<br \/>\nThe seat from Punjab fell vacant after AAP leader Sanjeev Arora quit following his election to the state Assembly in a recent bypoll.<br \/>\nThe demise of JMM leader Shibu Soren has created a fresh vacancy in the Upper House from Jharkhand.<br \/>\nThe effective strength of both the Houses together is 781 and the winning candidate will require 391 votes, considering that all eligible voters exercise their franchise.<br \/>\nIn the Lok Sabha, the BJP-led NDA enjoys the support of 293 of the 542 members. The ruling alliance has the support of 129 members in the Rajya Sabha, which has an effective strength of 240, assuming that the nominated members vote in support of the NDA nominee.<br \/>\nThus, the ruling alliance has the support of around 422 members.<br \/>\nArticle 66 (1) of the Constitution provides that the vice presidential election shall be held in accordance with the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote, and the voting at such an election shall be by secret ballot.<br \/>\nIn this system, the elector has to mark preferences against the names of the candidates.<br \/>\nThe vice president is the second-highest constitutional office in the country. He serves for a five-year term, but can continue to be in office, irrespective of the expiry of the term, until the successor assumes office.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31649\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31649\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31649\" src=\"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/rajya-sabha-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Rajya Sabha Has Vacancies From J&amp;K During Vice Presidential Poll For Second Consecutive Time\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31649\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rajya Sabha Has Vacancies From J&amp;K During Vice Presidential Poll For Second Consecutive Time<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Aug 11: The four Rajya Sabha seats from Jammu and Kashmir will remain vacant during the vice presidential election. The members of Parliament from both the Houses will elect the 17th vice president on September 9. 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