{"id":38690,"date":"2012-08-07T13:11:27","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T17:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manipur-mail.com\/?p=9105"},"modified":"2012-08-07T13:11:27","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T17:11:27","slug":"hamid-ansari-re-elected-vp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2012\/08\/07\/hamid-ansari-re-elected-vp\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamid Ansari re-elected VP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi , Aug 7 (ANI): India \u2018s incumbent Vice-President, Hamid Ansari, will continue in the same office for the next five years after winning the 2012 vice presidential elections convincingly on Tuesday.<br \/>\nAnsari will be only the second person in independent India\u2019s history to serve two consecutive terms as vice president and Rajya Sabha chariman, the first one being Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.<br \/>\nUPA-backed Ansari secured 490 votes, comprehensively surpassing his NDA-backed rival Jaswant Singh\u2019s tally of 238 votes.<br \/>\nThe Returning Officer for the vice presidential elections and Lok Sabha Secretary-General T.K. Vishwanathan announced that out of the 787 MPs eligibe to vote, 736 had exercised their franchise. Out of these 736, eight votes were declared invalid.<br \/>\nHe said that out of the 728 legal votes cast, 490 had gone to Ansari, while 238 had gone in favour of Jaswant Singh.<br \/>\nThe vice president of India is elected through a direct ballot with Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha members (including nominated) comprising the Electoral College.<br \/>\nA total of 790 MPs were eligible to cast their votes today to elect the nation\u2019s 14th vice president. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"http:\/\/manipur-mail.com\/hamid-ansari-re-elected-vp\/\">http:\/\/manipur-mail.com\/hamid-ansari-re-elected-vp\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi , Aug 7 (ANI): India \u2018s incumbent Vice-President, Hamid Ansari, will continue in the same office for the next five years after winning the 2012 vice presidential elections convincingly on Tuesday. Ansari will be only the second person in independent India\u2019s history to serve two consecutive terms as vice president and Rajya Sabha [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[985,4],"tags":[986,990],"class_list":["post-38690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-manipur-mail","category-news","tag-manipur-mail-2","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}