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Veteran Bharatiya Janata Party leader from Rajasthan, Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, is the National Democratic Alliance candidate for the post of India's Vice-President, according to BJP sources.
Shekhawat will be filing his nomination papers on Thursday for the August 12 poll, the sources added.
The NDA partners had agreed to support the BJP candidate for the post, as it was the largest party in the coalition, the sources said.
The former Rajasthan chief minister, who was the front runner in the race from the beginning, is already in Delhi and had meetings with senior party leaders, including Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and others.
The indication that he was the party's choice for this post came when new BJP president M Venkaiah Naidu reconstituted the national executive and Shekhawat's name did not figure in it.
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