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This Friday, on September 12th, Chandrapuram Ponnusamy Radhakrishnan on Friday took oath as the 15th Vice President of India at a ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi. Radhakrishnan’s oath to the office was administered by the President Droupadi Murmu in the presence of senior government officials and dignitaries.
CP Radhakrishnan, the NDA nominee, was elected as the 15th Vice President of India this Tuesday, on September 9, after he secured 452 votes. He defeated the Opposition candidate and former Supreme Court judge B. Sudershan Reddy, who received 300 votes, by152 votes. When the results of the voting were announced, Rajya Sabha Secretary General and Returning Officer PC Mody revealed that around 98.2% i.e., 767 out of the 781 MPs had cast their votes. Out of the 767, 15 were deemed invalid and 752 ballots were considered which eventually lowered the required majority of first preference votes to 377.
The NDA had the backing of 427 MPs on paper, 11 lawmakers from the YSRCP also supported Radhakrishnan. However, one thing that piqued everyone’s interest was that the NDA candidate received 14 votes more than expected. This led to many people speculating that members of the opposition had cross-voted and supported the NDA candidate.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated CP Radhakrishnan on winning the Vice Presidential elections through his X account.
“Congratulations to Thiru CP Radhakrishnan Ji on winning the 2025 Vice Presidential election. His life has always been devoted to serving society and empowering the poor and marginalised. I am confident that he will be an outstanding VP, who will strengthen our Constitutional values and enhance Parliamentary discourse,” PM Modi wrote.
During the oath taking ceremony many big names of Indian politics were present including the likes of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, former Vice-Presidents Jagdeep Dhankhar and Venkaiah Naidu, former President Ram Nath Kovind, Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, Union Minister of Road Transport & Highways Nitin Gadkari, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami and others were present during the oath taking ceremony.
