Who is Sudershan Reddy, INDIA bloc’s Vice Presidential candidate against NDA’s CP Radhakrishnan

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday announced former Supreme Court judge Sudershan Reddy as Opposition INDIA bloc’s candidate for the Vice Presidential election 2025.

Reddy will be up against BJP-led NDA’s CP Radhakrishnan to become the country’s next Vice President. The election to the office of Vice President of India is scheduled to be held on September 9.

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Announcing Reddy’s name as INDIA bloc’s candidate for the Vice Presidential election, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge said that the former Supreme Court “reflects, fully, the values that shaped our country’s Freedom Movement so profoundly, and the values on which our country’s Constitution and Democracy have been anchored.”

The Congress chief further called Reddy “a consistent and courageous champion of social, economic and political justice.”

This Vice Presidential contest is an ideological battle.

All Opposition parties have nominated Shri B. Sudershan Reddy garu as their joint candidate for the position of the Vice President of India.

Shri B. Sudershan Reddy garu is one of India’s most distinguished and… pic.x.com/FD98YJhJMA

— Mallikarjun Kharge (@kharge) August 19, 2025

Who is Sudershan Reddy, INDIA bloc’s Vice Presidential candidate

Balkrishna Sudershan Reddy is a former Supreme Court judge. He was the first Lokayukta of Goa.

Born in July 1946 in Ranga Reddy district of undivided Andhra Pradesh (Present day Telangana), Reddy earned Bachelor of Laws degree from Osmania University in 1971 and began his legal career the same year by enrolling as an advocate with the Bar Council of Andhra Pradesh.

Later, he was appointed as Government pleader in the Andhra Pradesh High Court and served in the post for two years between 1988 and 1990.

He also served as additional standing counsel for the Government of India in 1990. In 1993, Reddy was elected as the president of Andhra Pradesh High Court Advocates Association.

He became a judge in the Andhra Pradesh High Court on May 2, 1993.

Reddy was appointed as chief justice of the Gauhati High Court in 2005. He was elevated to a Supreme Court judge in January 2007 and retired in 2011.

While the ruling NDA alliance has the numbers to win the election, there is an outside chance for Reddy as well provided he gets support from some of NDA’s allies, specifically Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu’s TDP.