Maharashtra Governor C.P. Radhakrishnan was named the National Democratic Alliance’s Vice-Presidential candidate on Sunday (August 17, 2025), after the BJP Parliamentary Board endorsed his name, in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Mr. Radhakrishnan, 68, is a two-time former MP from Coimbatore and a former Tamil Nadu BJP president.
The new GST regime previewed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his Independence Day address would be consumer-centric, with particular emphasis on the poor, the MSMEs, the middle class and the farmers, senior government sources said on Sunday (August 17, 2025).
