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Owaisi said that his party AIMIM will extend support to INDIA bloc’s VP nominee Sudershan Reddy for the September 9 election.
Owaisi backs Sudershan Reddy in VP election (PTI Image)
Hyderabad MP and AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday extended support to the INDIA bloc’s Vice Presidential election nominee B Sudershan Reddy.
Owaisi said that he received a request from the Telangana Chief Minister’s Office to back the retired Supreme Court judge, who is pitted against NDA nominee and incumbent Maharashtra Governor CP Radhakrishnan for the September 9 poll.
“@TelanganaCMO spoke to me today and requested that we support Justice Sudershan Reddy as Vice President. @aimim_national will extend its support to Justice Reddy, a fellow Hyderabadi and a respected jurist. I also spoke to Justice Reddy and expressed our best wishes to him,” Owaisi wrote on X.
.@TelanganaCMO spoke to me today and requested that we support Justice Sudershan Reddy as Vice President. @aimim_national will extend its support to Justice Reddy, a fellow Hyderabadi and a respected jurist. I also spoke to Justice Reddy and expressed our best wishes to him.— Asaduddin Owaisi (@asadowaisi) September 6, 2025
The INDIA bloc announced its VP candidate on August 19 for the VP election. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge had described his nomination as an “ideological battle”.
He said that Reddy represents the values that reflect India’s freedom struggle.
“Today, these values are under assault, and this is the reason that the Opposition decided to contest this ideological battle unitedly,” he said.
Reddy, who worked as a lawyer in Andhra Pradesh and later became the Chief Justice of the Gauhati High Court, was made a Supreme Court judge in January 2007. He retired in July 2011. On August 12, BJP president JP Nadda announced Maharashtra Governor Radhakrishnan as NDA candidate for Vice President election.
The election was necessitated after Jagdeep Dhankhar resigned from his position, citing medical reasons.
The Vice President is elected by an electoral college comprising members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.
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