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Naidu Elected as India’s Next Vice President: B.N.Bharti

New Delhi: Senior BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu has been elected as India’s next Vice President, said the returning officer Shumsher K Sherif on Saturday. He secured 516 Votes out of the 760 valid votes.

Out of the 785 voters in the electorate MPs of both the Houses of Parliament 771 voted (98.2 %).

Sherif told reporter after counting that 11 votes were invalid and out of the 760 votes Naidu got 516 votes and his opponent Gopal Kishan Gandhi secured 244 votes. The candidate wanted a minimum of 381 votes to win the polls.

Saturday’s poll was the 15th Vice Presidential Poll. Naidu became the 13th Vice President of the country succeeding Hamid Ansari.

Naidu born in a farmer family in Andhra Pradesh in 1949, Naidu is a law graduate. He has an experience of almost three decades in legislative and Parliamentary forums as MLA of Andhra Pradesh Assembly ans MP in Rajya Sabha.

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