The vice presidential candidate in India Bloc former Supreme Court judge B Sudershan Reddy filed his nomination for VP elections on Thursday 21st August.
He submitted a nomination for the presence of the President of the Congress and leader Rajya Sabha from the opposition (LOP) MALLIKARJUN KHARGE, chairwoman of the parliamentary party of Sonia Gandhi and Lok Sabha Lop Rahul Gandhi.
The nomination was also present by the head of the NCP-SCP Sharad Pawar, the SP RAM GOPAL YADAV, DMK MP Tiruchi Siva, Shiv Sanjay Raut and several other leaders of the Indian Block of the opposition.
Sudershan Reddy vs CP Radhakrishnan
B Sudershan Reddy will compete for the position of Vice President against the BJP led by the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) CP Radhakrishnan.
Justice (Retd.) B Sudershan Reddy on Thursday expressed hope of gaining support across party lines and framed the elections as a competition of ideology rather than numbers.
“The numbers are going on … Of course I hope. Because I don’t belong to any political party, I believe everyone would support me … yesterday I explained it very much. It’s a battle for ideology,” said Reddy agency or agency or when he left for his nomination documents.
“I will definitely talk to you after filing the nomination … The program is simple, I go to the returning officer to present the nomination document,” he said.
VP elections
The Election Commission had previously announced that the election vice -president of September 9, with the counting of votes scheduled for the same day.
The last date of nomination is 21. August, while candidates can withdraw their nominations by August 25.
The post of vice -presidents relaxed after Jagdeep Dhankhar resigned on the first day of the monsoon meeting of Parliament 21. July, referring to health reasons.
The VP is elected by an election university, which consists of deputies from both houses of parliament. The elections of the Vice President are governed by provisions pursuant to Articles 64 and 68 of the Constitution.
The Election Commission points out the polls of VP public opinion under the Presidential and Vice Presidential elections of 1952.
Pursuant to Article 66 (1) of the Indian Constitution, the election of the vice -president is held by a system of proportional representation by means of a single transferable vote and vote in such elections is a secret vote.
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