 The oath taking ceremony was conducted at Rashtrapati Bhavan on 11 August 2012.His second term ended in August 2017 since he was not offered another term, he decided not to run for a third term in the 2017 vice-presidential election.Ansari was born on 1 April 1937 at Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India (present day Kolkata in the state of West Bengal, India) to Mohammad Abdul Aziz Ansari and Aasiya Begum.