Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu on Monday announced that Janata Dal (United) nominee Harivansh Narayan Singh has been chosen as the deputy chairman of the Rajya Sabha.
JD(U) MP Harivansh on Wednesday filed his nomination as the ruling NDA candidate to the Rajya Sabha deputy chairman's post and is likely to be elected, even as the opposition is working to field a joint candidate against him to force a contest.
Replying to a query, Chaturvedi said, "I don't think the opposition unity is breaking in any way."
On the whole, the NDA won because its leaders took the election seriously and there was good floor management.
A day after NDA-critics AAP and YSR Congress abstained from the polls citing a lack of attention from Congress, National Conference chief Omar Abdullah today criticised Gandhi for not comprising.
Securing 125 votes, ruling NDA candidate and JD(U) member Singh was elected as the Deputy Chairman.
Meanwhile, ANI quoted AAP MP Sanjay Singh as saying, “Looking at Congress's attitude we have decided to abstain from voting for Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman, Congress is the biggest obstacle in Opposition's unity.”
The entire House congratulated Harivansh with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Leader of the House Arun Jaitley and Leader of Opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad felicitating him.
Born on June 30, 1956 in Uttar Pradesh Balia in a middle class family, Harivansh is a post-graduate in Economics from Banaras Hindu University (BHU).
Jaitley had stepped aside as the finance minister in May to undergo a kidney transplant. The charge was then handed over to Minister for Railways and Coal Piyush Goyal.
RS deputy chairman election: The election will be held at 11 am, soon after the laying of papers. The post of Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman has been lying vacant since the retirement of PJ Kurien on July 1.
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