Ideological war for Vice President's post; Kerala's digital milestone

On this episode of SoSouth, the focus is on the Vice President contest, with NDA's CP Radhakrishnan and India bloc's Justice Sudarshan Reddy filing nominations. Reddy frames the election as an ideological battle, stating, "Shri Radhakrishnan belongs to RSS... I am a liberal constitutional democrat." The programme also reports on AIADMK's Edapadi K. Palaniswami threatening an ambulance driver for entering his campaign trail in Anekad. In other news, Kerala is set to become India's first fully digitally literate state. In Andhra Pradesh, Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu inaugurated the Ratan Tata Innovation Hub to build Amaravati into the 'quantum valley of India'. In Tamil Nadu, actor Vijay’s TVK party is holding a massive conference in Madurai, though the event is marked by the death of a fan who was electrocuted while setting up hoardings.