Opposition picks NCP’s Vandana Chavan

​New Delhi: Vandana Chavan, a leader of Sharad Pawar's NCP, is the Opposition's candidate for the number two post in the Rajya Sabha after the chairman, Vice President Venkaiah Naidu. Vandana Chavan has been a Rajya Sabha member of the NCP (Nationalist Congress Party) since 2012. 

"As a woman, I will be very happy if vice chairman becomes a woman, no matter to which party she belongs to," she said as reports emerged of the opposition choosing her as its consensus candidate. The 57-year-old, a three-time councillor between 1992 and 2007, was mayor of Pune in 1997-1998.