Former Supreme Court judge B Sudarshan Reddy to be Opposition’s vice presidential candidate

The Opposition INDIA bloc on Tuesday said that former Supreme Court judge B Sudarshan Reddy will be its candidate for the vice presidential election.

Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge announced that the bloc had decided to nominate a joint candidate for the polls. “It is a big moment for democracy,” said Kharge, the bloc’s convener.

“We all know how he stood for the poor and protected the Constitution,” added Kharge. “This is an ideological battle, and all Opposition parties agreed, that’s why we are contesting the election.”

Reddy was a judge in the Andhra Pradesh High Court in 1995 before becoming the chief justice of the Gauhati High Court in 2005. He was a judge of the Supreme Court from 2007 to 2011, when he retired.

Reddy also served as Goa’s first Lokayukta, or the anti-corruption ombudsman, in 2013.

The INDIA bloc’s announcement came two days after the Bharatiya Janata Party said that Maharashtra Governor CP Radhakrishnan will be the ruling National Democratic Alliance’s candidate for the vice presidential election.

BJP chief JP Nadda had said on Sunday that he hopes Radhakrishnan will be elected unopposed.

The vice president is also the Rajya Sabha chairperson.

The polls to elect the vice president are scheduled for September 9. The election result will be announced on the polling day itself.

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