Vice President Nominee
He was the candidate for the Vice president post by the NDA for the year 2012 which he lost . He contested against Hamid Ansari who was the UPA's Vice presidential candidate. On 6 August 2012, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa extended AIADMK’s support to NDA's vice-presidential nominee Jaswant Singh saying that there has to be an opposition in a true democracy.
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