Chennai, Aug. 19 -- Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK President M K Stalin tonight congratulated eminent jurist B Sudersan Reddy who was picked by the Opposition Congress-led INDIA Bloc, in which DMK is a partner, as the common candidate for the Vice Presidential elections against BJP-led NDA nominee and Maharashtra Governor C P Radhakrishnan, also a former RSS and BJP leader and hailed him a a jurist of integrity, independence, champion of civil liberties and social justice.

Lambasting the BJP-led Government at the Centre of turning all the independent institutions that were meant to safeguard Indian democracy into subsidiary bodies of the ruling party, he said the very Constitution itself was in danger.

In these circumstances, the re...