Of the 140 members, pro tem Speaker G Sudhakaran, the returning officer for the election, abstained from voting. Of the 139 votes polled, Radhakrishnan, fielded by the UDF, secured 101 votes.
The event, held at the Multipurpose Hall of Delhi University’s Sports Complex, focused on the “Story of India’s Partition (1947)” and the theme “The Partition of India—A Saga of Displacement, Separati ...