Overview

• Polling will be held on Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Room F‑101, Parliament House, with counting from 6 p.m., the returning officer P. C. Mody announced.
• The BJP-led NDA ran a two-day workshop for MPs that included a mock poll, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in attendance, while the INDIA bloc plans a mock voting drill for MPs on Monday.
• Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge cancelled the planned opposition dinner citing flood misery but retained the mock poll briefing for INDIA bloc MPs.
• The electoral college currently has about 782 voters, the winning mark is roughly 392, and party tallies give the NDA an estimated ~422 MPs, positioning Radhakrishnan strongly against the INDIA bloc’s B. Sudarshan Reddy.
• Framing the contest as an ideological choice, Reddy released a video urging MPs to vote by conscience, as campaign rhetoric included Amit Shah’s criticism over a past judgment and a rebuttal from a group of retired Supreme Court judges.