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The Vice President of India is the exofficio chairperson of the Rajya Sabha (upper house of the Indian parliament) and functions as its speaker. He also assumes the post of the President of India in case of a vacancy and stays in the post for a maximum period of six months and performs all the functions of the President. The Vice President also ...
The vice president of India is the second highest constitutional office in the government of India after the president.In accordance with Article 63 of the Constitution of India, the vice president discharges the functions of the president when a contingency arises due to the resignation, removal, death, impeachment or the inability of the president to discharge their functions.
A Vice Presidential election were held in India on 5 August 2017 before the term of Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari ends. Venkaiah Naidu was elected as the Vice President of India. Mr Naidu received 516 votes defeating the opposition's candidate, Gopal Krishna Gandhi, who got 244 votes. A total of 771 out of 785 parliamentarians voted in ...
4 August – Indian National Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi's car attacked by mob in Banaskatha in Gujarat; Venkaiah Naidu was elected as the Vice President of India. 5 August – Venkaiah Naidu won the Indian vice-presidential election with 67.89% votes against Gopalkrishna Gandhi the opposition candidate. [36]
The vice president of India is elected indirectly, by an electoral college consisting of members (elected as well as nominated) of both Houses of Parliament, by the system of proportional representation using single transferable votes and the voting is by secret ballot.
Naidu has also served as the national president of Bharatiya Janata Party from 2002 to 2004. [7] Earlier, he was the Union Cabinet Minister for Rural Development in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government. [8] [9] He took the oath as the vice president of India and the chairman of the Rajya Sabha (ex-officio as the Vice President) on 11 August 2017 ...
Ansari was the first person to be re-elected as Indian vice president after Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan in 1957. [20] Upon the inauguration of Ram Nath Kovind as President of India in 2017, Ansari became the first Indian vice-president to serve during the terms of three presidents. He is the longest serving vice president of India.
The 2017 presidential election was held in India on 17 July 2017 with the votes counted and the results announced on 20 July 2017. President Pranab Mukherjee , whose term of office was due to expire on 24 July 2017, [ 2 ] declined to seek re-election due to health concerns and old age.