Srinagar: Strongly rooted in the RSS and the BJP, Chandrapuram Ponnusamy Radhakrishnan was on Tuesday elected as the 15th Vice President of India, the third leader from Tamil Nadu to occupy the coveted post.
NDA candidate Radhakrishnan got 452 votes while Opposition nominee B Sudershan Reddy received 300 votes, said returning officer PC Mody.
“I declare CP Radhakrishnan elected to post of Vice President; result to be communicated to EC,” said the returning officer.
Total 767 votes were cast in the Vice Presidential polls held today, in which 752 were valid and 15 were invalid, Mody said.
Radhakrishnan joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) as a teenager and rose through the ranks in the organisation and later in the BJP, gaining acceptability in the party and the state.
