President Droupadi Murmu today administered the oath of Office of Vice President of India to C. P. Radhakrishnan at a Swearing-in-Ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan today.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, former President Ram Nath Kovind, Mr C P Radhakrishnan’s predecessor Jagdeep Dhankhar, and Union ministers including Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, J P Nadda, Piyush Goyal, and Nitin Gadkari were present on the occasion.
After taking the oath of office, Vice President C.P. Radhakrishnan paid floral tribute to Mahatma Gandhi at Rajghat. He also paid homage to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee at Sadaiv Atal.
Mr Radhakrishnan emerged victorious in the Vice Presidential elections held on the 9th of this month. NDA nominee Radhakrishnan bagged 452 votes, defeating the I.N.D.I.A. bloc candidate and former Supreme Court Judge B Sudershan Reddy by a margin of 152 votes.
