Naidu as vice-president candidate to balance NDA's North-South politics

Has been pitted against Opposition's candidate Gopal Krishna Gandhi who already filed nominations

Senior BJP leader and Union Housing and Urban Affairs, and Information and Broadcasting Minister Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu is the NDA’s candidate for the post of Vice President. By finalising the name of Naidu as a candidate for the vice presidential elections, the NDA has tried to balance the political equations between North and South, as Naidu hails from Andhra Pradesh and NDA has already nominated a north Indian Ram Nath Kovind as the Presidential candidate who comes from Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh.

Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah announced Naidu’s name in Delhi on Monday. 
 

Naidu has been pitted against