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Venkaiah Naidu is the new Vice President of India
August 7 , 2017
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• Former Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu is elected as the 13th Vice President of India. He secured twice as many votes as Gopal krishna Gandhi, who was opposition parties general candidate. Venkaiah Naidu is sworn in as new Vice president of the country on August 11, 2017.
• Out of 771 votes cast, Naidu secured 516 votes in his favour, Gandhi managed to get only 244 votes. Since only Parliamentary members are allowed to vote in this election, there were 790 votes in total. Over 98 percent voting was recorded in the vice-presidential election.
• The tenure of 12th Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari ended on August 10th.He has served as Vice President for two continuous terms (2007–2012 and 2012–2017). In the 2012 Vice Presidential election polls, Ansari had bagged 490 and NDA nominee Jaswant Singh 238 votes.
• Naidu has also been credited as the vice president, who has been elected with the highest number of votes (516 votes) in the past 25 years.
Vice Presidents who held the post for two tenures
| S.No | Name | Tenure |
| 1 | SarvepalliRadhakrishnan | 1952-1957 1957-1962 |
| 2 | Mohammad Hidayatullah | 1979-1984 |
| 3 | Shankar Dayal Sharma | 1987-1992 |
| S.No | Name | Tenure |
| 1 | SarvepalliRadhakrishnan | 1952-1957 1957-1962 |
| 2 | Mohammad Hamid Ansari | 2007-2012 2012-2017 |
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