New Delhi, Aug. 20 -- CP Radhakrishnan, the Vice Presidential candidate of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), filed nomination papers on 20 August. Radhakrishnan was accompanied by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP President JP Nadda, and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, among other leaders.

Before filing his papers, Radhakrishnan paid tributes at Prerna Sthal, which houses statues of iconic personalities in the Parliament complex, ahead of filing his nomination on Wednesday. He first bowed before the giant statue of Mahatma Gandhi and then proceeded to pay tributes to other noted personalities.

Radhakrishnan is pitted against former Supreme Court judge B Sudershan Reddy, whom the Opposition INDIA bloc name...