On dated 11th Aug-2017 Shri MuppavarapuVenkaiah Naidu, taken an oath as vice president of India.Shri Naidu was born 1 July 1949 and today he is the 15th and current Vice-President of India. While he is the 15th Vice President, he is the 13th person to hold the constitutional post. His predecessor Hamid Ansari and the first Vice President S Radhakrishnan had held the post for two consecutive terms.He served as the Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Urban Development and Information and Broadcasting in the Modi Cabinet.[1] A prominent leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party, he also served as its national president from 2002 to 2004.[2] Earlier, he was the Union Cabinet Minister for Rural Development in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government.[3][4] He took oath as 15th Vice-President of India on 11th August 2017 at Darbar Hall, RashtrapatiBhawan, New Delhi.
