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Ansari gets a second term as Vice-President

Posted On Wednesday, August 08, 2012 at 09:11:31 AM

Vice-President Hamid Ansari
UPA candidate Hamid Ansari was on Tuesday re-elected the Vice-President of the country. In a virtual repeat of the one-sided election like the presidential poll, Ansari defeated NDA’s Jaswant Singh by a margin of 252 votes.

Ansari thus became the only second person to get a second term. The 75-year-old a former career diplomat, who missed out in the recent Presidential race, got 490 votes against 238 secured by Singh, a former union minister who had held the portfolios of finance, defence and external affairs.

47 MPs abstain from voting

Altogether 787 members of Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha were eligible to vote but 47 MPs did not cast their votes. These included ailing Union Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh and BJP MP Shatrughan Sinha, who recently underwent a heart surgery. Those who abstained included 21 BJD MPs, 11 of TDP and two of RSP. In all, 736 votes were polled in the election that took place today.

Eight votes were invalid, according to T K Vishwanathan, Lok Sabha Secretary General and Returning Officer for Vice Presidential poll. The election was on expected lines with the UPA cobbling its numbers comfortably just like the Presidential poll. Ansari got support from Trinamool Congress and outside allies SP and BSP.


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