New Delhi, Aug. 9 -- The INDIA bloc is set to opt for a non-Congress candidate in the upcoming vice presidential election, in an effort to unite all Opposition parties and maximise the anti-BJP votes, which includes at least 11 votes of the Aam Aadmi Party, two leaders aware of the matter said on Friday.

"We can't repeat the mistake of the last VP election," a senior Opposition leader who attended the meeting on Thursday said, referring to the nomination of former Union minister and Congress leader Margaret Alva as the Opposition's candidate. Trinamool Congress, then the second-largest Opposition outfit in Parliament, refused to support Congress nominee Alva.

The VP election is scheduled on September 9.

On Thursday, after the dinner ho...