New Delhi. CP Radhakrishnan Desh has elected the new Vice President. NDA candidate CP Radhakrishnan got 452 votes while opposition candidate B.C. Sudarshan Reddy got 300 votes. In this way, CP Radhakrishnan got 152 votes more than his rival candidate. In the Vice Presidential election, the total voter number was 788, including 245 seats in the Rajya Sabha and 543 Lok Sabha seats, 781 were 781 effective voters due to vacant 7 seats. Out of these, a total of 767 MPs cast their votes in which 15 votes were invalid and 752 votes were considered valid. The voting percentage of the Vice Presidential election was 98.2 percent.
CP Radhakrishnan and B. Sudarshan Reddy (File Photo)
BRS, BJD and SAD decided not to vote in the Vice Presidential elections. The BJD had 7 votes, BRS 4 and SAD had 1 vote. At the same time, an independent MP Sarabjit Singh Khalsa also did not vote. NDA candidate CP Radhakrishnan’s victory was considered to be fixed before the election. 391 votes were required to win the election. Voting started at 10 am. Prime Minister Narendra Modi cast the first vote. Opposition candidate before the election, B.K. Sudarshan Reddy had appealed to the opposition parties as well as the people of the ruling party to vote by hearing the voice of the interaction. CP Radhakrishnan is currently the Governor of Maharashtra. Now he will resign from this post and take over the post of Vice President.
Radhakrishnan, originally from Tirupur, Tamil Nadu, has been associated with the RSS for almost four decades. From 2004 to 2007, he has also been the President of Tamil Nadu BJP. Radhakrishnan has also been the Governor of Jharkhand before becoming the Governor of Maharashtra. During this time, the President also gave him the responsibility of taking over as the Governor of Telangana and the Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry. Let us tell you that former Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar had resigned on the night of 21 July, citing health reasons, due to which the presidential election was held in the early time.