Margaret Alva I accept this nomination with great humility, tweets Margaret Alva on being named opposition's Vice-President poll candidate
New Delhi: Opposition leaders on Sunday named former Union minister Margaret Alva as their candidate for the upcoming vice-president election.
The election is scheduled to be held next month.
Accepting her nomination, Alva tweeted: "It is a privilege and an honour to be nominated as the candidate of the joint opposition for the post of Vice President of India. I accept this nomination with great humility and thank the leaders of the opposition for the faith they’ve put in me."
It is a privilege and an honour to be nominated as the candidate of the joint opposition for the post of Vice President of India. I accept this nomination with great humility and thank the leaders of the opposition for the faith they’ve put in me.
— Margaret Alva (@alva_margaret) July 17, 2022
Jai Hind 🇮🇳
Alva is a five-term Member of Parliament.
In her career, she had also served as the Governor of Goa.
Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu's term of office is ending on Aug 10.
Alva will contest the polls against NDA nominated candidate Jagdeep Dhankhar.
Dhankhar is the current Governor of West Bengal.
This comes after the BJP-led NDA picked former Jharkhand Governor and tribal leader Draupadi Murmu as its Presidential poll nominee.
In the number game, the BJP is set to sail through in both the contests.
If the candidates win, Murmu and Dhankhar will succeed Ram Nath Kovind and Venkaiah Naidu as the President and Vice President respectively.
Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress (TMC), which is the second largest opposition party in Rajya Sabha, and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) skipped the Opposition meet held at Pawar’s residence Sunday.
Banerjee will hold a meeting of her MPs on Jul 21 to discuss her party’s strategy for the upcoming Vice Presidential poll.
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