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Hamid Ansari elected Vice-President again, defeats Jaswant Singh by 252 votes
Clean Media Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Aug 07 (CMC): UPA's Hamid Ansari has been elected for a second term as the Vice-President of India on Tuesday. Ansari, who got 490 votes, defeated NDA's Jaswant Singh by a margin of 252 votes.
As many as 600 electors from an effective electoral college of 787 members of Parliament had cast their vote by 1.00pm, Ansari's election agent and senior advocate Pravin Parekh said here.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi were among the early voters as polling began at 10.00am.
BJD, TDP and RSP have declared that they would abstain from voting. Union minister Vilasrao Deshmukh is ill and admitted to a Chennai hospital. The three parties together have 34 members in both Houses of Parliament.
BJP leaders L K Advani, Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, Murli Manohar Joshi, BSP supremo Mayawati and SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav had cast their ballots before noon.
74-year-old Jaswant Singh, a former minister of external affairs and finance, has the support of NDA and AIADMK.
As many as 600 electors from an effective electoral college of 787 members of Parliament had cast their vote by 1.00pm, Ansari's election agent and senior advocate Pravin Parekh said here.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi were among the early voters as polling began at 10.00am.
BJD, TDP and RSP have declared that they would abstain from voting. Union minister Vilasrao Deshmukh is ill and admitted to a Chennai hospital. The three parties together have 34 members in both Houses of Parliament.
BJP leaders L K Advani, Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, Murli Manohar Joshi, BSP supremo Mayawati and SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav had cast their ballots before noon.
74-year-old Jaswant Singh, a former minister of external affairs and finance, has the support of NDA and AIADMK.
Mr. Vice President's victory was sure. But was it a areal election.
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