New Delhi: National Democratic Alliance (NDA) nominee Chandrapuram Ponnusamy Radhakrishnan filed his nomination papers for the Vice Presidential election on Wednesday, in a show of unity and strength by the ruling alliance. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, BJP President JP Nadda, and several senior Union ministers accompanied him during the process.
Sources confirmed that four sets of nomination papers were submitted, with Prime Minister Modi serving as the chief proposer in the first set. Before filing his nomination, Mr. Radhakrishnan visited Prerna Sthal in Parliament complex and paid floral tributes to Mahatma Gandhi and other national icons.
The BJP-led NDA announced Mr. Radhakrishnan’s candidature on Sunday after a Parliamentary Board meeting chaired by JP Nadda. Currently serving as the Governor of Maharashtra, he has earlier held gubernatorial responsibilities in Jharkhand and Telangana. A seasoned BJP leader, he represented Coimbatore in the Lok Sabha twice and also led the party’s Tamil Nadu unit.
Praising his decades-long political journey, Prime Minister Modi described him as a leader of “dedication, humility, and intellect,” highlighting his deep grassroots connect in Tamil Nadu.
Given the NDA’s comfortable majority in both Houses of Parliament, Radhakrishnan’s victory in the September 9 Vice Presidential election is widely considered a formality.
