NDA candidate C P Radhakrishnan on Wednesday filed his nomination papers for the upcoming vice presidential election in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Home Minister Amit Shah and several other senior leaders.
PM Modi, accompanied by Radhakrishnan and key NDA leaders, submitted four sets of nomination papers to Rajya Sabha Secretary General P C Mody, who is the returning officer for the election.
The sets of papers listed Modi, Singh, Shah and JD(U) leader Rajiv Ranjan Singh as lead proposers. After scrutiny of the documents, the returning officer had Radhakrishnan sign the official register and handed over the acknowledgement slip to the prime minister.
Radhakrishnan was escorted by senior ministers Pralhad Joshi, Dharmendra Pradhan and other NDA leaders, including TDP leader and Union Minister K Ram Mohan Naidu, Shiv Sena’s Shrikant Shinde and LJP (Ram Vilas) leader Chirag Paswan, to the returning officer’s office in Parliament.
Earlier, Radhakrishnan paid floral tributes to Mahatma Gandhi and other national icons at Prerna Sthal in the Parliament complex.
With wide support from the BJP-led NDA, Radhakrishnan’s election as Vice President is being seen as a foregone conclusion.
