India, Sept. 7 -- All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi said on Sunday that his party will back the INDIA bloc candidate B Sudarshan Reddy for the upcoming vice-presidential election.

The polls to elect the new Vice President of India are scheduled for September 9. The election was necessitated after Bharatiya Janata Party's Jagdeep Dhankhar resigned from the post on July 21, citing health reasons.

"@TelanganaCMO spoke to me today and requested that we support Justice Sudershan Reddy as Vice President. @aimim_national will extend its support to Justice Reddy, a fellow Hyderabadi and a respected jurist," Owaisi wrote in a post on social media platform X.

The Hyderabad MP also said that he spoke personally...