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The Congress-led opposition is zeroing in on senior Congress leader Sushilkumar Shinde as its joint candidate to take on former Rajasthan chief minister Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, the National Democratic Alliance nominee for the post of Vice-President, opposition sources told PTI.
The election for the post of Vice-President will be held on August 12.
Shinde, who had been AICC general secretary twice, belongs to the Scheduled Caste and has been elected to the Lok Sabha from Solapur in Maharashtra for the second time in 1999.
Earlier, he had been a member of the Rajya Sabha for one term. Shinde was first elected to the Maharashtra assembly in 1974 from Karmala and was soon inducted into the state ministry as minister of state for youth and transport.
He held various portfolios in the Maharashtra government between 1974 and 1992 and has created a record of sort by presenting the state budget nine times as finance minister.
Though hailing from a Scheduled Caste, he was elected to the Lok Sabha from a general seat.
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