C. P. Radhakrishnan Elected India’s 15th Vice President After Winning Vice-Presidential Poll on 9 September 2025.

On 9 September 2025, Chandrapuram Ponnusamy (C. P.) Radhakrishnan, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) nominee, was declared India’s 15th Vice President by the Election Commission of India (ECI), after defeating the INDIA bloc candidate, former Supreme Court Judge B. Sudershan Reddy, by a margin of 152 votes.

      - The Vice-Presidential Election 2025 was scheduled via a Gazette notification on 1 August 2025 by the ECI (Election Commission of India), fixing 9 September as both the polling and counting date, with the counting done at Parliament House, New Delhi.

      - Out of 781 electors (Members of Parliament from both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha), 767 MPs voted; 15 ballots were declared invalid. Radhakrishnan received 452 valid first-preference votes, B. Sudershan Reddy secured 300.

      - C. P. Radhakrishnan succeeds Jagdeep Dhankhar, who had resigned from the Vice Presidency on 21 July 2025 due to health reasons, even though his term was supposed to continue till 2027.

Main Point :-   (i) The Returning Officer for the election was P. C. Mody, the Secretary-General of the Rajya Sabha, who officially declared the results. The Certificate of Election was signed by Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, and Election Commissioners S. S. Sandhu and Dr. Vivek Joshi.

      (ii) Radhakrishnan, born on 20 October 1957 in Tiruppur, Tamil Nadu, had been serving as Governor of Maharashtra since 31 July 2024. Before that, he served as Governor of Jharkhand and held additional charge of Telangana and Puducherry. He has been active in the RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) since youth, was elected twice as Member of Parliament from Coimbatore, and has held key roles in BJP state politics.

(iii) The oath-taking ceremony is scheduled for 12 September 2025, to be administered by President Droupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati Bhavan. On the very same day as results, leaders including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Ministers Amit Shah, J. P. Nadda, as well as senior NDA leaders called on Radhakrishnan.