Chennai, Aug. 18 -- A day after the BJP-led NDA announced Maharashtra Goveror C P Radhakrishnan as the Vice-President candidate, BJP Tamil Nadu Unit President Nainar Nagendran today appealed to Chief Minister and DMK President M K Stalin to support his candidature in the September 9 polls on the lines of former Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik who, cutting across party lines, had supported Presidential candidate Draupadi Murmu. in 2022

In a statement here, Mr Nainar Nagendran, who is also the BJP Legislature Party Leader, said the nomination of a person from Southern India and that too a Tamil and a senior leader as the Vice Presidential candidate by the NDA, was an important recognition for Tamil Nadu.

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