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BRS, BJD will abstain from V-P poll today
The New Indian Express Kottayam
|September 09, 2025
WITH two parties—the seven-member Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and four-member Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) abstaining from the vice-presidential election on Tuesday, the numbers appear to be tilted in favour of the BJP-led alliance in the poll necessitated due to the sudden resignation of Jagdeep Dhankhar.
The NDA has 425 MPs, while the opposition camp has the backing of 324 in the high-stake poll in which NDA candidate C P Radhakrishnan is pitted against the opposition's Justice (Retd) B Sudershan Reddy. Both the NDA and the Con
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