While the ruling NDA and Opposition INDIA bloc are yet to reveal their nominees for the vice presidential election on September 9, three nominations, including from a serial contestant who claims to have filed nominations for 250 different elections over the past four decades, submitted their papers as the window for filing nominations opened on Thursday.
All three nominations were rejected for not complying with statutory requirements, as per a statement from the Rajya Sabha secretariat. One of those unsuccessful candidates was Dr K Padmarajan, a resident of Salem, Tamil Nadu.
He told The Indian Express that this was the 250th election he had filed a nomination for. Starting from 1980, he said he had filed nominations for Presidential, Vice-Presidential, Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha and Assembly elections.
He had filed nominations for the past six Presidential polls, as well as the last Vice-President election in 2022.
