NDA candidate and Maharashtra Governor C P Radhakrishnan will be the new Vice-President of India. He defeated I.N.D.I.A. bloc candidate and former Supreme Court Judge B Sudershan Reddy by a margin of 152 votes.
Briefing reporters after the counting of Votes for the Vice Presidential election, Rajya Sabha Secretary General and returning officer, P C Mody said, out of the total 781 electors, 767 MPs voted in the election. Of 767 votes, 752 were found valid and 15 were declared invalid.
The election took place after the resignation of former Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, citing health reasons.
The voting for the Vice Presidential election was held between 10 AM and 5 PM with Prime Minister Narendra Modi among the first members to cast his vote. Besides, several Union Ministers including Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, J.P. Nadda, Nitin Gadkari, Ashwini Vaishnaw and Shivraj Singh Chouhan also voted.
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh, JD (U) leader Sanjay Jha, JDS MP H.D. Deve Gowda, Shiv Sena’s MP Shrikant Shinde, NCP’s Praful Patel and Hindustani Awam Morcha’s Jitan Ram Manjhi also cast their votes. From the opposition camp, Congress MPs Mallikarjun Kharge, Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi, NCP (SCP) leader Sharad Pawar, Samajwadi Party’s Akhilesh Yadav and DMK MP Dayanidhi Maran also voted.
Born in Tiruppur, Tamil Nadu, Chandrapuram Ponnusamy Radhakrishnan, began his political journey as a student leader. He was actively involved in organisations such as the RSS and Jan Sangh. Since then he has used politics as a medium to serve the public.
He was elected twice to the Lok Sabha from Coimbatore. Mr. Radhakrishnan has also served as Governor of Jharkhand, Telangana, Puducherry and Maharashtra. An agriculturist and industrialist by profession, he is admired for his integrity, vision, and unblemished public life.
