Prime Minister Narendra Modi will cast the first vote on Tuesday (September 9, 2025) in the vice-presidential polls , for which Union Ministers Kiren Rijiju and Ram Mohan Naidu, and Shiv Sena MP Shrikant Shinde have been appointed election agents.

The post fell vacant on the first day of the monsoon session of Parliament, after Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar resigned from the post on July 21 citing health reasons. The NDA has nominated Maharashtra Governor C.P. Radhakrishnan and the Opposition’s candidate is Justice (retired) B. Sudershan Reddy for the election.

Two days before the polls, the NDA and the Opposition had started preparations to train their MPs on the voting process. Mr. Modi, his Cabinet colleagues from the BJP and party MPs took part in a two-day workshop — “

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