NDA candidate Jagdeep Dhankhar was elected as the Vice President of India on Saturday after he bagged 528 votes against his rival candidate Margaret Alva’s 182. Dhankhar, 71, will succeed M Venkaiah Naidu, who demits office August 10.

The returning officer of the vice presidential election said of the total 780 electors, 725 cast their ballots, but 15 votes were found to be invalid. Former West Bengal Governor Dhankhar was born on May 18, 1951, in an agrarian household in a village in Rajasthan’s Jhunjhunu district. After finishing his graduation in physics, he pursued LLB from the University of Rajasthan.