{"id":338591,"date":"2022-07-19T03:58:05","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T09:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=338591"},"modified":"2022-07-19T03:58:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T09:28:42","slug":"oppn-vp-candidate-margaret-alva-files-nomination-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/oppn-vp-candidate-margaret-alva-files-nomination-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"Oppn VP candidate Margaret Alva files nomination papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joint opposition candidate for the vice presidential election Margaret Alva on Tuesday filed her nomination papers for the post and was accompanied by a host of leaders.<\/p>\n<p>The vice presidential poll will be held on August 6 to elect the successor to M Venkaiah Naidu, whose term ends on August 10.<\/p>\n<p>Several opposition leaders, including Congress&#8217; Rahul Gandhi, NCP&#8217;s Sharad Pawar, CPI-M&#8217;s Sitaram Yechury, CPI&#8217;s D Raja, Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge and leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, were present during her nomination filing.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday is the last date for submission of nominations for the vice presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a tough election without a doubt, but I&#8217;m not afraid to take on the challenge,&#8221; she had said on Monday while thanking opposition parties who have supported her candidature.<\/p>\n<p>Alva, 80, is pitted against NDA&#8217;s Jagdeep Dhankhar, who resigned as West Bengal governor after being nominated on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Former Rajasthan governor and Congress veteran Alva was unanimously chosen as the joint opposition candidate for the post of vice president on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>All MPs of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, including nominated members, comprise the electoral college for the vice president&#8217;s election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joint opposition candidate for the vice presidential election Margaret Alva on Tuesday filed her nomination papers for the post and was accompanied by a host of leaders. The vice presidential poll will be held on August 6 to elect the successor to M Venkaiah Naidu, whose term ends on August 10. Several opposition leaders, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":338592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338593,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338591\/revisions\/338593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/338592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}