New Delhi, Sept. 9 -- The 15th Vice President of India is all set to be elected on Tuesday, in an electoral battle of ballots that will test the unity and strength of both the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and the Opposition bloc although NDA's candidate CP Radhakrishnan looks set to win over former Supreme Court judge B Sudershan Reddy.

Still, with Naveen Patnaik's Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and K Chandrasekhara Rao's Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) announcing their abstention from the election, the margin of victory is likely to be small. The BJD has seven MPs and the BRS four.

The NDA, along with the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP), has 429 MPs supporting Radhakrishnan while 324 Opposition MPs are supporting Reddy. The Vice President ...