Venkaiah Naidu becomes India's
13th Vice-President
New
Delhi: Veteran BJP leader and NDA candidate Venkaiah Naidu was on Saturday, 5th
August 2017 elected 13th Vice-President of India after bagging majority of the
votes of the electoral college comprising both the Houses of Parliament.
Naidu got 516 votes while his rival and former West Bengal
governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi received 244 votes. He won with huge margin of 272
votes.
The
election saw almost 100 percent voting with 771 members casting their votes out
of the 785 members. The voting percentage was 98.21 percent.
Shortly after he was elected as the new Vice President,
Naidu said as Chairman of the Rajya Sabha he would sincerely try to steer the
functioning of the House without "fear or favour" and uphold its
dignity with cooperation of all members.
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