The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidate CP Radhakrishnan for the vice presidential elections is expected to file his nomination on Wednesday, Aug 20, 2025.
In the first set of nomination papers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be the lead proposer. For the vice presidential elections, the nomination will be filed in four sets, each carrying the signatures of 20 proposers and 20 seconders. The remaining sets will include signatures from other Union Ministers and senior alliance leaders.
As per reports, more than 160 members of the NDA will be present during the filing of the nomination papers at Parliament House.
The NDA has unanimously chosen Maharashtra Governor CP Radakrishnan as its candidate for the Vice Presidential polls scheduled for September 9. The decision was taken by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Parliamentary Board meeting that was chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday at the party headquarters.
The announcement was made by BJP national president and Union Minister JP Nadda, following the sudden resignation of Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on July 21 due to health reasons. Dhankhar, 74, stepped down two years into his term, which began in August 2022.
Who Is CP Radhakrishnana?
CP Radhakrishnan is currently serving as the Governor of Maharashtra. Before this, he served as the Governor of Jharkhand with an additional charge as the Governor of Telangana and Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry.
In 1974, he became a State Executive Committee member of the Bharatiya Jan Sangh in Tamil Nadu, and in 1996, he was appointed Secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Having more than four decades of experience in politics in Tamil Nadu, Radhakrishnan wore several hats as Secretary of the BJP, party chief and the governor of several states.
Born on October 20, 1957, in Tamil Nadu’s Tiruppur, he served two terms as Lok Sabha MP from Coimbatore in 1998 and 1999. As per the information available, he chaired the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Textiles and was a member of the committees on Public Sector Undertakings and Finance.
Before becoming the Governor of Jharkhand, he led a 93-day, 19,000-km Ratha Yatra, focused on interlinking rivers and implementing a uniform civil code.
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