NDA Parliamentary Meeting To Felicitates VP Pick CP Radhakrishnan; PM Modi, Top Leaders Attend Key Meeting

The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) on Tuesday held its parliamentary party meeting to formally felicitate its candidate for the upcoming Vice Presidential election, CP Radhakrishnan. The meeting, a significant display of the ruling alliance’s unity and strength, Top leaders including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah arrived to attend the meet . The gathering served as an official welcome for Radhakrishnan, whose nomination was announced over the weekend, and set the stage for his campaign ahead of the September 9 poll.

Radhakrishnan, the current Governor of Maharashtra, arrived in the national capital on Monday and immediately engaged in a series of high-level meetings. He met with Prime Minister Modi, who later posted on X, “His long years of public service and experience across domains will greatly enrich our nation.” The Vice Presidential nominee was also formally felicitated on Monday evening at a meeting of NDA floor leaders hosted at Union Minister Pralhad Joshi’s residence, where he was received by senior ministers.

While Radhakrishnan’s victory is considered a certainty given the NDA’s comfortable majority in the electoral college, the ruling alliance is actively reaching out to opposition parties to build a broader consensus. Senior leader and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has been tasked with coordinating these efforts and has reportedly spoken with leaders of the DMK, BJD, and TMC. The alliance has already secured a boost with the YSR Congress Party, which is not aligned with either major bloc, pledging its 11 MPs’ support for Radhakrishnan’s candidacy.

With the felicitation complete, the focus now shifts to the nomination process. Radhakrishnan is expected to file his nomination papers on August 20, in a show of strength that will likely feature the Prime Minister, several cabinet colleagues, and the chief ministers of NDA-ruled states. The move solidifies the BJP’s strategic choice of a veteran leader from Tamil Nadu for the country’s second-highest constitutional post.