Jaswant Singh files nomination Vice-Presidential candidate
NDA's
Vice-Presidential candidate Jaswant Singh has filed his nomination
papers for the vice presidential election on Friday in the presence of
leaders including L K Advani, Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley and JD (U)
President Sharad Yadav.
Three
sets of papers-one each by L K Advani, Sumitra Mahajan and Yashwant
Sinha- supporting Singh's candidature were submitted to Lok Sabha
Secretary General T K Vishwanathan, who is the Returning Officer for the
Vice-Presidential election.
Though
UPA candidate Hamid Ansari is set to enter the history books as only
the second person after S Radhakrishnan to get a second consecutive term
as Vice President, NDA has decided to field Singh as it does not want
to give the ruling coalition a walkover.
Singh, a former External Affairs, Finance and Defence Minister, has provided a semblance of seriousness to the contest.
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