PM Modi meets Vice President-elect Thiru CP Radhakrishnan

In a post on X, PM Modi wrote: “Met Thiru CP Radhakrishnan Ji and congratulated him on winning the Vice Presidential election. @CPRGuv."

In an X post earlier, the Prime Minister wrote, "Congratulations to Thiru CP Radhakrishnan Ji on winning the 2025 Vice Presidential election. His life has always been devoted to serving society and empowering the poor and marginalised. I am confident that he will be an outstanding VP, who will strengthen our Constitutional values and enhance Parliamentary discourse."

Radhakrishnan was elected to the post through the day-long polling that started at 10 am sharp with the first vote being cast by PM Modi at the Parliament House.

Radhakrishnan defeated his opponent, ex-Supreme Court judge B Sudershan Reddy, who was fielded by the INDIA bloc, by 152 votes, which is one of the lowest margins in the Vice-Presidential election.

While Radhakrishnan got 452 first preferential votes, Reddy secured 300 first preferential votes.

Fifteen out of the total 754 votes cast were declared invalid.

In 2022, Jagdeep Dhankhar had defeated the Opposition's Margaret Alva's by the highest margin in the last six V-P elections. Dhankhar had received 528 votes as opposed to Alva's 182.

But the slim margin this time is much due to the change in the political dynamics post 2024 Lok Sabha elections, as the Opposition has emerged as the strongest since the current regime took over in 2014.

The INDIA bloc has 234 MPs, while Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) couldn't secure the majority (stopped at 240) in the last parliamentary elections.