VP Ansari trounces Jaswant with ease
8 Aug 2012 6:25 AM IST
The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) candidate Hamid Ansari was re-elected as vice president on Tuesday, after he swept the poll with a clear majority, defeating the National Democratic Alliance candidate Jaswant Singh.
Out of the total of 787 members who were eligible to vote, 736 cast their ballot. Out of this, Ansari got 490 votes, while Singh secured 238. Fifty-one members did not cast votes and eight votes were declared invalid.
The Lok Sabha secretary general T K Vishwanathan, the returning officer for the election, announced Ansari's victory soon after the counting ended on Tuesday evening at Parliament. Ansari comfortably crossed the half-way mark, leading to his second-term as India's vice-president.
Out of the total 790 members of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha that form the electoral college for the vice-presidential poll, three are vacant, with Pranab Mukherjee becoming the president, Vijay Bahuguna the chief minister of Uttarakhand and the election of BJP MP J Shanta having been set aside by a high court.
One of the highlights of the election was the Uttar Pradesh arch-rivals the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party both voted for Ansari. The Nationalist Congress Party leaders Sharad Pawar and Praful Patel also voted, even through they conspicuously skipped the UPA lunch which was organised by the Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Monday. The Bharatiya Janata Party leaders L K Advani, Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley and Murli Manohar Joshi cast their votes before noon.
The parliamentary affairs minister Pawan Kumar Bansal said that 21 members from the Biju Janata Dal, 11 from the Telugu Desam Party and six from the Congress and its allies did not cast votes.
The BJP member Shatrughan Sinha skipped voting due to sickness, while the other BJP leader Dilip Singh Judev could not come as his mother was not well. The Trinamool Congress members Kakoli Dastidar and Kabir Suman are abroad. So is the Samajwadi Party member Brij Bhushan Singh. The Congress leader Vilasrao Deshmukh is admitted in a Chennai hospital for liver-related ailments.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the Congress president Sonia Gandhi and the party general secretary Rahul Gandhi came together to cast their votes.
Out of the total of 787 members who were eligible to vote, 736 cast their ballot. Out of this, Ansari got 490 votes, while Singh secured 238. Fifty-one members did not cast votes and eight votes were declared invalid.
The Lok Sabha secretary general T K Vishwanathan, the returning officer for the election, announced Ansari's victory soon after the counting ended on Tuesday evening at Parliament. Ansari comfortably crossed the half-way mark, leading to his second-term as India's vice-president.
Out of the total 790 members of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha that form the electoral college for the vice-presidential poll, three are vacant, with Pranab Mukherjee becoming the president, Vijay Bahuguna the chief minister of Uttarakhand and the election of BJP MP J Shanta having been set aside by a high court.
One of the highlights of the election was the Uttar Pradesh arch-rivals the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party both voted for Ansari. The Nationalist Congress Party leaders Sharad Pawar and Praful Patel also voted, even through they conspicuously skipped the UPA lunch which was organised by the Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Monday. The Bharatiya Janata Party leaders L K Advani, Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley and Murli Manohar Joshi cast their votes before noon.
The parliamentary affairs minister Pawan Kumar Bansal said that 21 members from the Biju Janata Dal, 11 from the Telugu Desam Party and six from the Congress and its allies did not cast votes.
The BJP member Shatrughan Sinha skipped voting due to sickness, while the other BJP leader Dilip Singh Judev could not come as his mother was not well. The Trinamool Congress members Kakoli Dastidar and Kabir Suman are abroad. So is the Samajwadi Party member Brij Bhushan Singh. The Congress leader Vilasrao Deshmukh is admitted in a Chennai hospital for liver-related ailments.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the Congress president Sonia Gandhi and the party general secretary Rahul Gandhi came together to cast their votes.
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