Voting for Vice-Presidential election begins in Parliament at 10:16 AM. Members of both Houses of Parliament will vote to choose the new vice president of India because the current vice president, M Venkaiah Naidu, will leave office on August 10.

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Home Minister Amit Shah, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi were all seen voting at the Parliament House. While Margaret Alva has been nominated by opposition parties, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has named West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar as their vice presidential candidate.

At Parliament House in New Delhi, voting for the new vice president of India started at 10 am and will last until 5 pm, after which the votes will be counted.

Regional parties including the Janata Dal (United), YSRCP, BSP, AIADMK, and Shiv Sena are backing Dhankhar, who is expected to win with more than 515 votes. With the support of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), and Telangana Rashtra Samithi, Alva is expected to receive more than 200 votes (TRS).

Evidently, there is another another division within the opposition. The Trinamool Congress (TMC), which has 39 representatives in both Houses of Parliament and is the second-largest opposition party behind the Congress, has made the decision to abstain on Saturday's vote.

On Alva's candidacy, TMC said that it had "not been consulted." It remains to be seen if cross-voting, which occurred during the Presidential election last month, would once again hurt the opposition.