NDA candidate, Venkaiah Naidu will be India’s next Vice-President after he defeated Congress candidate, Gopalkrishna Gandhi by a margin of 272 votes.
Of the total 771 votes cast out of a possible 785, and 760 of them were deemed valid. Naidu managed to get 516 votes, which ensured that he won the election comfortably. Gandhi got 244 votes.
He will take the oath of office on 11 August.
The polling percentage was high. The total polling percentage recorded was 98.21. 771 out of 785 votes were polled.
Although 785 MPs are there in both the Houses of Parliament, 14 MPs could not vote. “Coming from an agricultural background, I never imagined I would be here. Agriculture has no proper voice in Indian polity,” India’s vice-president-elect told PTI.
In the 2012 polls, Ansari had bagged 490 and NDA nominee Jaswant Singh 238 votes.
