Hamid Ansari sworn in as 14th Vice President

Hamid Ansari was sworn-in as the Vice President of the country for the second consecutive term by President Pranab Mukherjee in New Delhi on Saturday.Ansari, 75, was administered the oath by the President at a grand ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhawan  which was attended by Prime Minister Mamohan Singh and ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi.

Hamid Ansari is  India's 14th Vice President for a second five-year term on Saturday, after four days after he won the vice presidential polls defeating his main challenger and former Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh by a huge margin.Ansari became the country's second Vice President to win a second consecutive term.

Ansari had polled 490 first preference votes out of 728 valid votes cast in the election held on 7^th August. Jaswant Singh polled 238 votes.Ansari got more votes than he had secured in the 2007 election.He had the backing of the Congress and its allies in the UPA, including the Nationalist Congress Party, DMK and the National Conference.

After Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Ansari is the only person to have been re-elected to the office. His main rival Jaswant Singh was the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party- led National Democratic Alliance's candidate.