New Delhi, Aug 09: NDA nominee Harivansh has won the poll for Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman with 125 votes. The Opposition's candidate BK Hariprasad secured 105 votes. Harivansh, who is a first time MP from JDU, hails from Jharkhand and is a journalist by profession.
It was a closely contested battle between the two parliamentarians as the arithmetic polls remained dynamic till the last moment with parties like YSRCP, BJP, PDP keeping the mystery alive into small hours.
Here is the small information about Harivansh
He received his Masters in economics and a diploma in Journalism from the Banaras Hindu University.
He was editor in chief of the " Prabhat Khabar" newspaper based in Jharkhand's Ranchi
A first-time parliamentarian, Singh has been a Rajya Sabha member of the Janata Dal-United since 2014.
He was associated with Jai Prakash Narayan, the socialist who united opposition parties against Indira Gandhi's emergency rule.
Choice of Harivansh Narayan is significant at a time ties have seen strained between allies Nitish Kumar and BJP.
List of Deputy Chairmen of the Rajya Sabha
SV Krishnamoorthy Rao (Congress)1952-1962
Violet Alva (Congress)1962-1969
BD Khobragade (Republican Party of India) 1969-1972
Godey Murahari (Samyukta Socialist Party)1972-1977
Ram Niwas Mirdha (Congress) 1977-1980
Shyamlal Yadav (Congress)1980-1984
Najma Heptullah (Congress)1985-1986
MM Jacob (Congress) Feb 1986-Oct 1986
Pratibha Patil (Congress)1986-1988
Najma Heptullah (Congress)1988-2004
K Rahman Khan (Congress) 2004-2012
PJ Kurien (Congress) 2012-2018
NDA’s Harivansh wins #RajyaSabhaDeputyChairman election.
— Manak Gupta (@manakgupta) August 9, 2018
NDA = 122
UPA+ = 98
Abstained = 2
Total = 222