NEW DELHI--- The Congress led UPA candidate for Vice Presidential election Hamid Ansari has been re-elected as Vice President of India. He defeated the NDA candidate and veteran BJP leader Jaswant Singh by 252 votes. Ansari is second Vice President of India to hold two consecutive term of Vice President’s office, after Sarvpalli Radha Krishnan. Earlier S Radhakrishnan served the nation as Vice President for two terms from 1952 to 1962.
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The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh casting his vote in the Vice Presidential election at Parliament House, in New Delhi on August 07, 2012. The Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs and Water Resources, Pawan Kumar Bansal, the Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs, Rajiv Shukla and the Minister of State for Railways, K.H. Muniyappa are also seen. Photo © PIB |
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