M Venkaiah Naidu

M Venkaiah Naidu is the 13th and current Vice President of India since 11 August 2017. On 5 August 2017, Naidu was elected Vice President of India with 67.89% of the votes. Naidu served as the Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Urban Development and Information and Broadcasting in the Narendra Modi cabinet. A well known leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party, he has also served as its national president from 2002 to 2004. Earlier, he was the Union Cabinet Minister for Rural Development in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government.