So far neither the ruling party nor the opposition party has announced any candidate for the Vice-Presidential Polls due on 5 Aug and The last date to file the nomination is 18 July.
The ruling NDA is however currently is trying to figure out ways to deal with the challenge of organising the Presidential polls as well as the beginning of the monsoon session, both falling on the same day. Apart from this with PM Narendra Modi and party President Amit Shah both out of the state capital, BJP is facing another problem of filing the nomination for the VP polls. Though with all these tensions the party has decided to meet on July 9 and announce the NDA candidate.
On the other hand, the Opposition parties are also one again gearing to unite together and declare one consensus candidate for all non-NDA party for the VP polls. After the failure of the first attempt to unite the non-NDA parties, Sonia Gandhi is trying for the second time to get all the parties together and choose a candidate for the polls. A meeting has been organised on next Tuesday to discuss the same and few other issues.
9 candidates have filed the nominations for the Vice-Presidential elections, however, 4 of them are already rejected as they had neither filed the certified copy of the electoral roll to prove that they are voters of a Lok Sabha seat nor had they deposited Rs 15,000 in cash as a security deposit. The other 5 nominations are also soon likely to be rejected as for not having 20 electors as proposer and as many as seconders.
The criteria required to file the nomination for the VP polls is that the candidate should be the voters of Lok Sabha seat, they should have at least 20 electors as proposers and 20 electors as seconders and they have to deposit an amount of Rs 15000/-.