New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has picked Maharashtra Governor CP Radhakrishnan as its Vice Presidential candidate for the 9 September elections. Radhakrishnan will file nomination papers on 20 August.

Radhakrishnan's candidature comes almost a month after Jagdeep Dhankhar resigned as Vice President on 21 July, opening the contest for his successor. Dhankhar, 74, assumed office in August 2022 and served until 2027.

Radhakrishnan will face the INDIA bloc's yet-to-be-announced candidate in an election in which the numbers seem to favour the NDA.

Here are 5 reasons why NDA picked Radhakrishnan as its VP candidate:

Radhakrishnan's candidacy is primarily driven by his ideological anc...