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President Droupadi Murmu administers the oath of office to Vice President-elect Jagdeep Dhankhar. Dhankhar becomes the 14th Vice President of India.
Among those present on the occasion at the ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhawan included the out-going Vice- President Former Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, S Jaishankar External Affairs Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman , Finance Minister and BJP president J P Nadda also attended the ceremony .
In the Vice- President polls held earlier, National Democratic Alliance candidate Jagdeep Dhankhar won the election by bagging more than 500 votes, while opposition candidate Margaret Alva polled less than 200 votes, sources said.
“NDA candidate Jagdeep Dhankar won by 346 votes as he bagged 528 of the total 725 votes that were cast. While 15 were termed invalid, Opposition candidate Margret Alva received 182 votes in the election,” Lok Sabha general secretary Utpal K Singh said.
