| Ansari defeats Jaswant, re-elected vice-president |
NEW DELHI United Progressive Alliance (UPA) candidate Hamid Ansari was on Tuesday re-elected as the vice-president, becoming the second person to get a second consecutive term as he defeated National Democratic Alliance (NDA) nominee Jaswant Singh by a margin of 252 votes.
Ansari, 75, a former IFS officer, got 490 votes against 238 bagged by Singh out of 736 votes polled earlier in the day. Ansari is the second vice-president to be re-elected after S Radhakrishnan who was the first to get two terms from 1952 to 1962.
Formerly the vice-chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University, Ansari’s name came as a surprise in 2007 election when the Left parties, supporting the UPA-I from outside, proposed him and the Congress-led alliance accepted it. The Left parties had no problems in supporting Ansari for a second time.
A Padma Shree awardee, the Rajya Sabha chairman carried himself well but he courted controversy after abruptly adjourning the House on the last day of a session when a debate was underway on Lokpal bill.
Agencies
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