<p>Top Opposition leaders will meet on Sunday to decide on their Vice Presidential candidate.</p>.<p>Sources said the meeting will take place after the all-party meet called by the government to discuss the functioning of Parliament during the Monsoon Session.</p>.<p>Congress has already informed other parties that they do not have a candidate in mind.</p>.<p>The Opposition leaders were to meet earlier this week but they decided to postpone it, as it wanted to wait for the government’s candidate.</p>.<p><strong>Read | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/national-politics/nda-announces-west-bengal-governor-jagdeep-dhankhar-as-vice-presidential-candidate-1127266.html" target="_blank">NDA announces West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar as Vice Presidential candidate</a></strong></p>.<p>Senior Opposition leaders have initiated dialogue between them and efforts are on to zero in on a “credible” face who is willing to fight a battle that is likely to lose. “We need to put up a political fight. The results are a foregone conclusion. But we are not in for an uncontested election,” a senior Opposition leader said.</p>.<p>Referring to the outgoing Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, senior Rajya Sabha MP and Congress General Secretary (Communications) Jairam Ramesh tweeted, “so it is curtains for Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu-garu. His humour and wit will be missed. On many occasions he got the Opposition all agitated, but at the end of it a good man exits. He may have retired, but I know he will not be tired.”</p>
<p>Top Opposition leaders will meet on Sunday to decide on their Vice Presidential candidate.</p>.<p>Sources said the meeting will take place after the all-party meet called by the government to discuss the functioning of Parliament during the Monsoon Session.</p>.<p>Congress has already informed other parties that they do not have a candidate in mind.</p>.<p>The Opposition leaders were to meet earlier this week but they decided to postpone it, as it wanted to wait for the government’s candidate.</p>.<p><strong>Read | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/national-politics/nda-announces-west-bengal-governor-jagdeep-dhankhar-as-vice-presidential-candidate-1127266.html" target="_blank">NDA announces West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar as Vice Presidential candidate</a></strong></p>.<p>Senior Opposition leaders have initiated dialogue between them and efforts are on to zero in on a “credible” face who is willing to fight a battle that is likely to lose. “We need to put up a political fight. The results are a foregone conclusion. But we are not in for an uncontested election,” a senior Opposition leader said.</p>.<p>Referring to the outgoing Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, senior Rajya Sabha MP and Congress General Secretary (Communications) Jairam Ramesh tweeted, “so it is curtains for Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu-garu. His humour and wit will be missed. On many occasions he got the Opposition all agitated, but at the end of it a good man exits. He may have retired, but I know he will not be tired.”</p>
