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Former VP Dhankhar attends swearing-in of new Vice President

New Delhi, Sept 12 (UNI) Former Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar today attended the oath-taking ceremony of CP Radhakrishnan, who was sworn in as the 15th Vice President of India. Dhankhar congratulated Radhakrishnan on assuming the country’s second-highest constitutional office.
Radhakrishnan, a veteran BJP leader from Tamil Nadu, was elected Vice President earlier this week after securing 452 votes against the Opposition INDIA bloc’s candidate, retired Supreme Court judge B. Sudershan Reddy, who received 300 votes.
The election witnessed 98.2% voter turnout, with 752 valid ballots and 15 invalid votes, lowering the winning mark to 377.
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