India, Sept. 8 -- The members of Parliament are all set to elect the next Vice President of India on Tuesday, September 9, months after Jagdeep Dhankhar resigned from the post citing health reasons mid-way his term which was scheduled to end in 2027.

The choices in front of the Parliament are - Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA's CP Radhakrishnan, who has served as Governor of several states, and Indian National Congress-led INDIA bloc's Sudershan Reddy, a former Supreme Court judge.

The Vice President of India is elected by an electoral college, which consists of members of both Houses of Parliament, in accordance with the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote.

The voting in the Vice-President pol...