Letters: Constitutional role

BJP has more RS MPs than Congress and when NDA and its friends are no longer heavily outnumbered

The president and vice-president have constitutional obligations. While addressing a meeting of National Democratic Alliance (NDA) MPs just ahead of the election for the office of vice-president of India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said it is significant that the country would have the president and the vice-president from the same ideology as that of the alliance during 2017-22. It seems Modi has forgotten the important feature of our democratic set-up — that when the president and vice-president are elected, they do not have any ideology.
 
They are the president and vice-president of the nation and they are to