CP Radhakrishnan will be the 15th Vice President of India. The ruling NDA candidate, Maharashtra Governor C.P. Radhakrishnan was elected the Vice President of India after securing 452 votes of first preference in the electoral college. Announcing the results, Rajya Sabha General Secretary PC Modi said that Radhakrishnan defeated opposition candidate Justice (retired) Sudarshan Reddy, who got 300 votes of first preference. Maharashtra Governor Chandrapuram Ponnusamy Radhakrishnan (67) joined the RSS and Jana Sangh in adolescence. He won the Lok Sabha elections twice from Coimbatore in the late 1990s and his supporters call him ‘Modi of Tamil Nadu’.
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Radhakrishnan won the election twice from the Coimbatore Lok Sabha seat in 1998 and 1999, although he suffered three consecutive defeats from this seat. He has a lot of respect in all parties in Tamil Nadu and that is why the BJP gave him the post of Governor several times. As an OBC leader, his candidature also tries to “passive” a major political discourse of the opposition. He was sworn in as the Governor of Maharashtra on 31 July 2024. Earlier, he served as the Governor of Jharkhand for about one and a half years. As the Governor of Jharkhand, he was also given additional charge of Telangana Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry.
Even after assuming the post of Governor in various states, he has often visited Tamil Nadu. During his recent tour of Tamil Nadu, he participated in several programs and Chief Minister M.K. Also met Stalin. Assembly elections are due in Tamil Nadu next year. Born on 20 October 1957 in Tirupur, Tamil Nadu, Radhakrishnan has a bachelor’s degree in business management. Radhakrishnan, who started the RSS volunteer at the age of 16, became a member of the state executive of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh in 1974. In the year 1996, Radhakrishnan was appointed as Secretary of BJP’s Tamil Nadu unit. He was elected to the Lok Sabha for the first time from Coimbatore in 1998 and in 1999 he was again elected to the Lok Sabha from this seat.
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During his tenure as an MP, he served as the chairman and member of various parliamentary committees. Between 2004 and 2007, Radhakrishnan was Tamil Nadu BJP state president. While in this post, he performed the 19,000 km ‘Rath Yatra’, which lasted for 93 days. An enthusiastic player Radhakrishnan has been a college champion and long -range runner in table tennis. It is said that he had an important role in creating a new alliance for the BJP in Tamil Nadu after DMK ended his relationship with the NDA in 2004.