New Delhi, Aug. 18 -- CP Radhakrishnan will be the candidate of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) for the post of Vice President of India. The post of the Vice President is lying vacant since the resignation of Jagdeep Dhankar.

Chandrapuram Ponnusamy Radhakrishnan (born 20 October 1957) is an Indian politician who has served as the governor of Maharashtra since 31 July 2024. He previously served as the governor of Jharkhand from February 2023 to July 2024.

A member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) since his youth, he was elected to the Lok Sabha from Coimbatore in the 1998 and re-elected in the 1999 general elections. He was defeated in 2004; Radhakrishnan was the BJP candidate in Coimbatore...