NOTES AND REFERENCES‌

1. The original Constitution provided that the Vice- President would be elected by the two Houses of Parliament assembled at a joint meeting. This cumbersome procedure was done away by the 11th Constitutional Amendment Act of 1961.

2. Constituent Assembly Debates, Volume VII, p. 1001.

3. This method is discussed in Chapter 17.

4. Presidential and Vice-Presidential Elections Act, 1952 as amended in 1997.

5. Dr. S. Radhakrishnan was elected for a second term.

6. Krishna Kant was the first Vice-President to die in office.

7. When two Presidents, Dr. Zakir Hussain and Fakruddin Ali Ahmed, died in office, the then respective Vice- Presidents, V.V. Giri and B.D. Jatti acted as President.

8. The Vice-President Dr. S. Radhakrishnan discharged the functions of the President in June 1960 when the then President Dr. Rajendra Prasad was on a 15-day tour to the USSR and again in July 1961 when he (Dr. Rajendra Prasad) was very ill.

9. Vide the Finance Act, 2018, with effect from 1st January, 2016. This Act amended the Salaries and Allowances of Officers of Parliament Act, 1953.

10. The Vice-President’s Pension (Amendment) Act, 2008.