Flanked by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and veteran BJP leader L K Advani, former minister M Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday July 18,2017 filed his nomination papers for the vice presidential election.

BJP president Amit Shah, senior leader Murli Manohar Joshi as well as leaders from BJP allies and those from other regional parties, including the AIADMK and the Telangana Rashtra Samiti, accompanied Naidu as he filed his papers in the parliament complex.

The Shiv Sena was also present.

Modi, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and several top leaders of the NDA were among those who proposed and seconded Naidu's candidature in the several sets of nomination papers filed in his favour

The BJP's Parliamentary Board had on Monday July 17,2017 picked Naidu as the NDA's vice presidential nominee.

The senior BJP leader resigned as Urban Development and Information and Broadcasting minister hours before he filed his nomination papers.

The vice presidential is scheduled to be held on August 5.

Venkaiah Naidu will contest against the opposition's vice presidential nominee Gopalkrishna Gandhi

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, center, hold hands of senior Bharatiya Janata Party or BJP, L.K. Advani, center right, and Venkaiah Naidu, center left, as they walk in a procession to file nomination papers for Naidu for the vice president election at the parliament house in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, July 18, 2017