Rooted in RSS, C P Radhakrishnan elected India’s 15th Vice President
New Delhi: A longtime RSS member and BJP loyalist, Chandrapuram Ponnusamy Radhakrishnan was elected as the 15th Vice President of India on Tuesday.
According to Kashmir Media Service, Radhakrishnan, 67, secured 452 votes against 300 for his rival, INDIA bloc candidate B. Sudershan Reddy. He succeeds Jagdeep Dhankhar, who abruptly resigned on July 21, taking everyone by surprise.
Radhakrishnan, promoter of Hindutva ideology, served twice as Lok Sabha MP from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, during Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s tenure and held key gubernatorial posts in Jharkhand, Telangana, Maharashtra, and Puducherry. He was serving as governor of Maharashtra when he was named as vice-presidential nominee of the BJP-led NDA.
He began his journey with the RSS as a teenager. He became a state executive committee member of the Bharatiya Janasangh in 1974, later rising to BJP Tamil Nadu secretary in 1996 and state president from 2003–2006.
