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Topic: Vice President

ThePrint photos of the week: Farmers’ protest, Modi-Rabuka meet & anti-Trump protest in Sadar Bazar

In PhotosOfTheWeek we bring you pictures clicked by ThePrint’s photojournalists, video journalists and reporters this past week.

‘Natural for V-P to be from South’—Amit Shah on CP Radhakrishnan’s nomination for Vice-President

Home Minister clarifies that it is natural for the V-P to be from southern India as 'the President is from East India & the Prime Minister is from the West and North'.

‘Dhankhar resigned for health reasons, no need to make fuss’—Amit Shah hits back at skeptics

Home Minister says the vice-president resigned due to health issues & dismissed the Opposition's claims that he was under 'house arrest'.

CP Radhakrishnan, BJP’s new ‘Jat’ face & what makes Raj Thackeray go all warm & fuzzy

Pre-Truth — snappy, witty and significant snippets from the world of politics and government.

Moral standards, hand-washed only & tailor-made talks

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

INDIA bloc V-P candidate Sudershan Reddy files nomination papers

The former SC Judge filed his nomination papers in the presence of senior opposition leaders Rahul Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge, Sonia Gandhi & Sharad Pawar among others.

Congress labelled him ‘yes man’, BJP pinned hopes on him—the many shades of Oppn’s V-P pick Justice Reddy

Justice Reddy, who served as SC judge until his retirement in 2011, has come under harsh BJP criticism even before he & NDA nominee CP Radhakrishnan formally launch their campaign.

NDA’s VP candidate CP Radhakrishnan files nomination papers. Modi in attendance

Radhakrishnan filed his nomination with 20 proposers & 20 supporters present. Union ministers Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, JP Nadda & Kiren Rijiju were also present.

In INDIA bloc’s choice for V-P candidate, a bid to wage ‘ideological battle’, put NDA allies in a spot

Former SC judge B Sudershan Reddy will contest against NDA candidate CP Radhakrishnan. He served as Chief Justice of Gauhati HC, Assam, before reaching the SC.

INDIA bloc fields ex-SC judge Justice B. Sudershan Reddy as V-P candidate against CP Radhakrishnan

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge made the announcement Tuesday following the INDIA bloc meeting. Reddy will file his nomination for the vice-presidential polls on 21 August.

On Camera

On Arundhati Roy, mother-daughter conflicts, and the burden of being a ‘good mother’

When reading the book, one can see Roy’s mother as a 'fascist government' unto herself, the centre of her own cult. In Arundhati’s words, Mary Roy was ‘mother guru’.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Loyal wingman’ to full ICBM triad & air defence, China’s show of power at Victory Day parade

China flaunted military might & modernisation as it displayed stealth drones, anti-satellite system & cyber warfare contingent during parade to mark victory over Japan in WWII.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.