Hamid Ansari takes oath as Indian Vice President for second consecutive term
Sunday, August 12th, 2012 1:10:58 by Fayyaz Yaseen
Hamid Ansari takes oath as Indian Vice President for second consecutive term
New Delhi: (Saturday, August 11, 2012) Hamid Ansari has taken oath as the Indian Vice President for the second consecutive term. Earlier, Pranab Mukherjee took oath as the new President of the country.
75-year-old Ansari administered the oath to the President at a grand ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhawan.
In the contest, Ansari defeated NDA candidate Jaswant Singh with a comfortable margin earlier this week for his re-election as Vice President.
For grabbing the position for a second consecutive term, Ansari got 490 votes out of a total of 728 votes cast in the election.
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Posted by Fayyaz Yaseen
on Aug 12 2012. Filed under World.
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