Former SC judge Sudarshan Reddy is Opposition’s candidate for Vice President elections

INDIA Bloc has decided to commonly field retired Supreme Court judge B Sudershan Reddy as a candidate to contest in the upcoming Vice President elections.

The decision was taken unanimously, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge told in a press conference, flanked by leaders of INDIA Bloc.

Justice (Retd.) Reddy served as a Supreme Court judge between 2007 and 2011, for four-and-a-half years. He had rendered several landmark judgments on various branches of law, in particular on issues of criminal jurisprudence, Constitution, taxation, service law and human rights.