New Delhi, Sept. 8 -- The two fence-sitters, K Chandrasekhar Rao-led Bharatiya Rashtra Samiti (BRS) and Naveen Patnaik-led Biju Janata Dal (BJD), have announced they will abstain from voting in the high-stakes Vice Presidential polls scheduled for Tuesday, 9 September.

Both parties have asserted that they remain 'equidistant' from both the NDA and the INDIA bloc, news agency PTI reported. The two parties are called fence-sitters since they are not aligned with either of the two major alliances - the ruling NDA and the Opposition's INDIA bloc.

BRS Working President KT Rama Rao said on Monday that his party would abstain from the Vice Presidential election as an expression of the "anguish" of Telangana's farmers over the shortage of urea ...