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ü Article 64: The Vice President shall be the ex-officio Chairman of the Rajya Sabha.
ü Note: The Vice President is like a counter part of the Speaker of the Lok Sabha.
ü Article 65: The Vice President shall act as the President in the event of a vacancy in the
office of the President by reason of his death, resignation or removal or otherwise.
ü At the time of acting as the President or discharging the functions of the President the
Vice President shall not perform the duties of the Chairman of Rajya Sabha. (Article 64).
ü Article 66 (1): The Vice President is elected by an electoral college consisting of the
members of the two houses of the Parliament in accordance with the system of
proportional representation by means of a single transferable vote.
ü The election to the office of the Vice President has to be completed before the expiration
of the term.
ü Article 68: this article talk about the time of holding the elections to fill vacancy in the
office of Vice President and the term of office of the Vice President to fill casual vacancy
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ü Article 71: Disputes related to the election of the Vice President can be challenged only
in Supreme Court
ELECTION:
1. VP is elected indirectly by the members of an electoral college consisting of the
members of both Lok sabha and Rajyasabha. (It includes nominated members also).
QUALIFICATIONS:
Sitting President or Vice-President of the union, the Governor of any state and a minister
of the union or any state is not deemed to hold any office of profit and hence qualified for
being a candidate for vice-President.
Nomination for the election must be subscribed by at least 20 electors as proposers and 20
electors as seconders.
OATH:
The oath of office to the VP is administered by the President or some person appointed by
him.
TERM: 5 years.
REMOVAL: 14 days advance notice should be given. The Vice President is removed by
a resolution of the Rajya Sabha passed by majority of all the then members of the council
and agreed to by the House of the People.
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The reasons for the removal of the Vice President are not mentioned in the Constitution.
REELECTION: Sitting Vice President can be reelected to the office any number of
terms. So far only the first VP of India Dr. S. Radhakrishanan was the only person who
got elected to the office of VP for two terms.
Note: The sitting Vice President Hamid Ansari reelected to the office for the second term
in the year 2012.
VACANCY:
2. By death
3. By resignation
5. Otherwise
In case of vacancy the election must be held as soon as possible. The newly elected VP
remains in office for a full term of 5 years from the date of assuming charges.
The election disputes in relation with election of the Vice-President are enquired into and
decided by the Supreme Court. The decision of Supreme Court is final and exclusive.
The Vice-President while acting as the President does not perform the duties of the
Chairman of Rajya Sabha.
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4. While acting as the President of India he is entitled to draw the salary of the President
and not that of Chairman of Rajya Sabha.
VICE-PRESIDENTS OF INDIA
Dr.Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan 1952-1962
B.D.Jatti 1974-1979
R. Venkataraman 1984-1987
K.R.Narayan 1992-1997
MISCELLANEOUS:
ü In the VP elections that was held in August 2012 a candidate by name Narendranath
Dubey Ajig said to be a resident of Varanasi (UP) faked the signatures of 40 MPs from
AP. The matter came to light when the MPs were contacted by the election office to cross-
check whether they had extended support. The MPs approached the Lok Sabha Secretary-
General and the election office to appraise them what had transpired. On the complained
lodged by an MP Ponnam Prabhakar the Economic Offences Wing of the Delhi Police
registered an FIR on December 13, 2012.
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