{"id":80352,"date":"2017-08-04T08:28:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T08:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usmalayali.com\/?p=80352"},"modified":"2023-09-14T15:51:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T15:51:35","slug":"vice-presidential-poll-nda-organises-mock-voting-for-its-mps-in-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/?p=80352","title":{"rendered":"Vice-presidential poll: NDA organises mock voting for its MPs in evening."},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Johnson Cherian.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The vice-presidential election, scheduled for Saturday, may look like it is in the bag for the ruling NDA, but Prime Minister Narendra Modi is taking no chances.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On Friday evening, he will meet all MPs of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and the parties that have pledged support to its candidate M. Venkaiah Naidu at the G.M.C. Balayogi Auditorium in the Parliament House complex.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The meeting will be different from the routine as it involves a mock voting with replicas of the ballot.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Two names<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThere were 21 invalid votes polled in the presidential election, and many of them were from the BJP. It was felt, therefore, that there should be a demo of the voting process again,\u201d said a senior office-bearer of the BJP.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The ballot will have the names of Mr. Naidu and Opposition candidate Gopalkrishna Gandhi. Mr. Modi will take part in the exercise as an MP.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">At the meeting, all constituents of the NDA will express their support for Mr. Naidu. This will be followed by a cultural programme and a dinner. The cultural programme is being arranged by Union Minister Mahesh Sharma.<\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnson Cherian. The vice-presidential election, scheduled for Saturday, may look like it is in the bag for the ruling NDA, but Prime Minister Narendra Modi is taking no chances. On Friday evening, he will meet all MPs of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and the parties that have pledged support to its candidate M. Venkaiah [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,44],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-80352","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-english","8":"category-news"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167697,"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80352\/revisions\/167697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}