 "UPA's Vice-President nominee Gopalkrishna Gandhi files nomination")
Gandhi has been picked by 18 opposition parties to be their nominee for the post of vice president.
The Congress was represented by senior leaders such as president Sonia Gandhi, vice president Rahul Gandhi, former prime minister Manmohan Singh as well as Ghulam Nabi Azad and Mallikarjun Kharge as the former West Bengal governor filed his papers in the parliament complex.
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The vice presidential is scheduled to be held on August 5.
Gandhi will contest against the NDA's candidate Ram Nath Kovind.
(Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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