Hyderabad, Sept. 9 -- The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) on Monday decided to abstain from voting in the Vice-Presidential election scheduled for Tuesday, party working president KT Rama Rao announced.

"The decision was taken at a meeting of party president and former Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao after discussions with party leaders," KTR said, adding that the party's Rajya Sabha MPs had been asked to stay away from the polling.

The Vice-Presidential election was necessitated by the resignation of Jagdeep Dhankhar.

The BRS has four Rajya Sabha members and has no representation in the Lok Sabha.

In the 2022 Vice-Presidential elections, the BRS (then known as Telangana Rashtra Samithi) which had 16 MPs, including nine Lok ...