Vice Presidential poll: Venkaiah Naidu, Gopalkrishna Gandhi to file nomination today

The last date for making nominations for the August 5 elections will end on Tuesday, according to the Election Commission.

Vice Presidential candidates M Venkaiah Naidu, representing the ruling National Democratic Alliance and Gopalkrishna Gandhi, the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and the Opposition’s candidate will be filing their nominations on Tuesday.

M Venkaiah Naidu with BJP national president Amit Shah and Prime Minister Narendra Modi after he was announced NDA’s Vice-Presidential candidate at BJP headquarters in New Delhi on Monday. (Vipin Kumar/HT PHOTO)

The Opposition named Gandhi, a former governor, as their vice-presidential candidate, last week, while Naidu was nominated for the post by the NDA on Monday.

The last date for making nominations for the August 5 elections will end on Tuesday, according to the Election Commission.

The counting would take place on August 5.

The term of Vice-President Hamid Ansari, who is also the ex-officio Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, ends on August 10.