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PM Narendra Modi Congratulates Venkaiah Naidu As He Takes Charge As India's 13th Vice President: Highlights
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Updated : August 11, 2017 3:02 pm IST
Vice President Venkaiah Naidu at the oath ceremony in the Parliament
New Delhi: M Venkaiah Naidu, 68, who was elected as India's 13th Vice President on August 5 takes oath. Venkaiah Naidu had defeated former West Bengal Governor and Mahatma Gandhi's grandson Gopalkrishna Gandhi, the opposition candidate. Mr Naidu is a two-time Union minister and four-time Rajya Sabha member. Before he was NDA's Vice Presidential candidate he held the portfolios of Parliamentary Affairs, Information and Broadcasting and Urban Development. On winning the vice-presidential poll Mr Naidu said, "India stands for: Integrated National Development Impacting All Indians, equally well. This is the mission for India." Venkaiah Naidu will succeed Hamid Ansari who finished his decade-long tenure as Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairman yesterday.
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Welcoming M Venkaiah Naidu, India's new Vice President as the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, Prime Minister Narendra Modi this morning noted that "people from a humble, rural background today occupy the highest positions in India."
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Indian National Congress tweets wishes to Venkaiah Naidu
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President Ram Nath Kovind greets Venkaiah Naidu.
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Watch | Venkaiah Naidu's oath as the Vice President
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Watch | PM Narendra Modi in the Rajya Sabha
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Leader of opposition, Gulam Nabi Azad congratulates and welcomes Vice President Venkaiah Naidu
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"It has been my privilege to work with Venkaiah ji... he has an eye for detail and would look into the minutest things from the rural sector to the urban one," Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in Rajya Sabha.
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Venkaiah Naidu was welcomed in the Paliament House earlier.
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Venkaiah Naidu at the Rajya Sabha as the chair for the first time.
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