Jammu, Sept. 9 -- In a noteworthy political development, CP Radhakrishnan, the candidate of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), was declared the winner of the Vice Presidential election held on Tuesday in Parliament.
His victory, by a considerable margin, not only reaffirms the NDA's dominance but also reveals underlying currents of cross-party cooperation that go beyond conventional political divisions.
The election saw an electoral college comprising 781 Members of Parliament (MPs), accounting for all seats except for six vacancies in the Rajya Sabha and one in the Lok Sabha at the time of polling. Of this total, the NDA had formal backing from 425 MPs, while the opposition INDIA bloc-led by the Congress party-commanded supp...