NEW DELHI: NDA nominee CP Radhakrishnan was once on Tuesday elected as India’s fifteenth vice chairman, defeating opposition INDIA bloc candidate and previous Ideal Courtroom pass judgement on B Sudershan Reddy.Radhakrishnan, recently serving as Maharashtra governor, will vacate the publish to be successful Jagdeep Dhankhar, whose abrupt resignation on July 21 created the emptiness.The vice chairman holds the rustic’s second-highest constitutional workplace, after the President of India.Right here’s the seventeenth vice presidential election in numbers:Overall votes: 767Legitimate votes: 752Invalid votes: 15Radhakrishnan votes: 452Reddy votes: 300Electoral faculty power: 788 (543 Lok Sabha MPs, 245 Rajya Sabha)Provide power: 781 (6 Rajya Sabha seats vacant; 1 in Lok Sabha)Abstentions (MPs who didn’t vote): 14NDA numbers ahead of vote casting: 427 (+11 YSRCP MPs)INDIA bloc numbers ahead of vote casting: 315Your Mur’s President, PM Modi congratulate cp radhakrishnanPresident Droupadi Murmu congratulated Radhakrishnan, pronouncing: “Congratulations to Shri C. P. Radhakrishnan on being elected because the Vice President of India! Your a long time of enjoy in public existence will give a contribution considerably to the country’s growth. I want you a a success and impactful tenure.”Top Minister Narendra Modi wrote on X: “Congratulations to Thiru CP Radhakrishnan Ji on successful the 2025 Vice Presidential election. His existence has at all times been dedicated to serving society and empowering the deficient and marginalised. I’m assured that he’s going to be an impressive VP, who will fortify our Constitutional values and give a boost to Parliamentary discourse.”Radhakrishnan additionally served 2 phrases within the Lok Sabha, successful from the Coimbatore seat within the 1998 and 1999 common elections. He held gubernatorial posts in Jharkhand, Telangana, Puducherry, and because July 2024, Maharashtra.