Overview

• Polling will be held on September 9 from 10 am to 5 pm in Room F-101, Vasudha, Parliament House, with counting from 6 pm under returning officer P. C. Mody.
• CP Radhakrishnan of the NDA faces the INDIA bloc’s B. Sudarshan Reddy in a secret-ballot contest of MPs from both Houses, with nominated Rajya Sabha members eligible to vote.
• The BJP convened a two-day ‘Sansad Karyashala’ for NDA MPs, attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, including a mock polling drill on ballot procedure.
• Opposition parties scheduled a mock poll and briefings for MPs, and Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge canceled a planned unity dinner citing nationwide floods; BJP also canceled a dinner.
• Reddy issued a video appeal urging MPs to vote by conscience as campaign exchanges included criticism of his 2011 Salwa Judum judgment and a rebuttal letter from 18 retired Supreme Court judges.