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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-backed National Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidate Jagdeep Dhankhar is India’s new Vice President. The former West Bengal Governer defeated Opposition candidate Margaret Alva by a whopping margin of 346 votes.
Dhankar got 528 votes while Alva secured 182 votes in the election, said LS Gen-Secy Utpal K Singh. 15 votes were termed invalid, he added.
A total of 725 MPs voted in the election, polling for which started at 10 AM and ended at 5 PM.
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