The atmosphere is hot for the election of the post of Vice President. Both NDA and India Block have also announced the names of their candidates. Where the NDA, the Governor of Maharashtra and senior BJP leader C.P. While Radhakrishnan has been made a candidate, the opposition has made the contest interesting by fielding former Justice of Supreme Court and Sudarshan Reddy, who was a Lokayukta of Goa.

How many MPs and opposition MPs in Lok Sabha?

However, the mathematics of the data is clearly tilted in favor of the ruling party. At present, a total of 782 MPs are entitled to vote in Parliament including Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha and at least 392 votes will be required to win. There are a total of 543 MPs in the Lok Sabha, out of which the NDA has 293 MPs, while the opposition has 234 MPs and 15 MPs from other small parties.

How many MPs have the opposition in Rajya Sabha?

Similarly, out of a total of 240 MPs in the Rajya Sabha, the NDA has the support of about 134 MPs, while the opposition has 78 MPs, while the number of small political parties and elected MPs is 28. In this way, the votes of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha MPs together have a total of 427 votes, which are 35 votes more than the majority figure.

How many votes are away from the majority?

On the other hand, the opposition has only 312 votes, ie 80 votes less than the majority. At the same time, other parties and independents have 43 votes, but even without them the power of the ruling party is heavy. If we look at the last election, NDA candidate Jagdeep Dhankhar got 528 votes in the Vice Presidential election held in August 2022, while opposition candidate Margaret Alva got only 182 votes. At that time 55 MPs did not vote.

If you take a look at the profiles of the candidates fielded by the NDA and India alliance, then both the candidates come from South India. Radha Krishnan comes from Tamil Nadu and Sudarshan comes from Telangana. CP Radhakrishnan is an old BJP leader and has organization and administrative experiences. He was the Governor of Jharkhand from February 2023 to July 2024 and also took over the additional charge of the Lt. Governor of Telangana and Puducherry.

Currently CP Radhakrishnan is the Governor of Maharashtra. At the same time, opposition candidate Sudarshan Reddy has been a judge of the Supreme Court and his honest and strict image was also revealed as the Lokayukta of Goa. The opposition has tried to take them down and give the message that this election number is not only of strength, but also of moral strength and ideology.

Opposition has a shortage of number force

However, the figures clearly indicate that the candidate of the ruling party C.P. Radhakrishnan’s victory is almost decided. The opposition may have fielded Sudarshan Reddy with strong image, but lack of number force is their biggest challenge, but the opposition parties are hoping that they can also get support from MPs of NDA parties.

Especially the parties associated with South India of TDP and YSRCP. If this happens, the match can definitely be quite interesting, but its possibility is very less.

On Sunday (August 17, 2025), BJP -led NDA, Maharashtra Governor C.P. Radhakrishnan has been declared the party’s candidate. The name came out after the BJP’s Parliamentary Board meeting, which was approved by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Minister Amit Shah.

CP Radhakrishnan (Chandrapuram Ponnusamy Radhakrishnan) received the post of Governor of Maharashtra on 31 July 2024. According to the website of Maharashtra Raj Bhavan, before Maharashtra, CP Radhakrishnan served as the Governor of Jharkhand. Within the first four months of being appointed as the Governor of Jharkhand in 2023, CP Radhakrishnan visited all 24 districts of the state and interacted with citizens and district officials.

BJP has served as state president

Before becoming the Governor of Jharkhand, he worked as BJP state president in Tamil Nadu from 2004 to 2007. During his service as Tamil Nadu BJP President, between 2004 and 2007, CP Radhakrishnan did a 19,000 km ‘Rath Yatra’, which lasted for 93 days.

The yatra was organized on its demands like connecting Indian rivers, abolition of terrorism, implementing uniform civil code, prevention of untouchability and dealing with drug threats. At the same time, he led two more padyatras on many issues. Shri Radhakrishnan is a respected name in Tamil Nadu politics and public life.

CP Radhakrishnan also associated with RSS

In 1996, CP Radhakrishnan was appointed as Secretary of Tamil Nadu BJP. In 1998, he was elected to the Lok Sabha from Coimbatore for the first time. In 1999, he was again elected to the Lok Sabha. Born in Tiruppur, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra Governor CP Radhakrishnan has graduated in Business Administration. According to the information, he has been a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and was also a member of the State Executive of Bharatiya Jana Sangh in 1974.

Apart from politics, also amazing in sports world

According to the website, apart from his political journey, CP Radhakrishnan has also registered a name in the sports world. Radhakrishnan was also a college champion and long -range runner at table tennis. He is also fond of cricket and volleyball. CP Radhakrishnan has also been a member of the parliamentary special committee investigating the stock exchange scam.

Explain that amidst speculation of the party candidate, the Election Commission had announced that elections for the post of Vice President will be held on 9 September. According to the information issued by the Election Commission, the last date for filing nomination is 21 August and the documents will be examined on 22 August.

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