I have to say that that it's a most uninspired choice to have Mr. Vekaiah Naidu as the new Vice President of India.  Since I am a literary minded person, I would think that comparing Mr. Venkaiah Naidu to Mr. Gopal Krishna Gandhi is like comparing Chetan Bhagat with Amitav Ghosh.  It's just that Mr. Naidu has numbers stacked in his favor, in much the same way that more people have read Chetan Bhagat in India than they have Amitav Ghosh.  What I also think that at a larger level, this also demonstrates the current BJP government's almost visceral dislike of intellectual and scholarly people.