Shimla : Vikramaditya Singh, son of veteran Congress leader and union minister Virbhadra Singh was elected president of the Indian youth Congress on Tuesday here .
Vikramaditya , 22 , defeated Raghubir Bali son of former minister G.S.Bali by a margin of 3,485 votes .Bali polled 2434 votes .
Manmohan Katoch , sitting state unit IYC president finished a distant third with only 457 votes , said a spokesman of the Congress party .
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