On 16 July 2022, the BJP nominated Dhankhar as the National Democratic Alliance's candidate for Vice President of India for the 2022 election the following month. President Droupadi Murmu administering the oath of office to Dhankhar as the 14th Vice President of India. Vice Presidency (2022–present) 2022 vice-presidential election Reacting to the nomination, AITC Lok Sabha MP Sougata Roy, said that Dhankhar was "being rewarded for harassing the AITC". He resigned as Governor on 17 July 2022, after being nominated as the vice-presidential candidate of the National Democratic Alliance. Later on 15 July 2022, Dhankar visited Delhi and met Union Home Minister Amit Shah there. On 13 July 2022, Dhankar met with Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee and Chief Minister of Assam Himanta Biswa Sharma. The Hindu, newspaper in its editorial noted that it appeared on several occasions that "Dhankhar was playing a partisan role in State politics, in tandem with the BJP". In January 2022, CM Banerjee blocked Dhankhar on Twitter and accused him of mentioning her in his tweets daily and speaking in an unethical and abusive way. In response the ruling party in Bengal All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) referred Dhankhar as the 'real leader of the opposition'. Dhankhar had been a vocal critic of the Third Banerjee ministry, and frequently used Twitter and media to attack the West Bengal government over political issues. Radhakrishnan, Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court administered the Oath of Office to Jagdeep Dhankhar on 30 July 2019 at the Raj Bhavan, Kolkata Īfter becoming the governor of West Bengal, Dhankhar had frequent public confrontations with the state government and chief minister of the state Mamata Banerjee throughout his tenure. On 20 July 2019, Second Modi ministry through, President Ram Nath Kovind appointed him as Governor of West Bengal. Governor of West Bengal Jagdeep Dhankhar with Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi In 2016, he headed the BJP's law and legal affairs department. He was a member of 2008 assembly election campaign committee of BJP. He lost the 1998 Indian general election from Jhunjhunu Lok Sabha constituency and came on third position. He was elected as a Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) from Kishangarh, Rajasthan during 1993–98 in the 10th Legislative Assembly Rajasthan. He lost the 1991 Indian general election from Ajmer Lok Sabha constituency. He was a member of parliament of Janata Dal representing Jhunjhunu Lok Sabha constituency in Rajasthan during 1989–91 in the 9th Lok Sabha. He has been a member of Janata Dal and Indian National Congress in past. ĭhankhar had appeared in the Sutlej River water dispute in 2016, he argued on behalf of the state of Haryana in the Supreme Court of India. He is a former President of Rajasthan High Court Bar Association, Jaipur. He has appeared in various High Courts of India. Since 1990, Dhankhar had been practicing primarily in the Supreme Court of India. He was designated as Senior Advocate by the High Court of Judicature for Rajasthan in 1990, and was the senior-most designated Senior Advocate of the state till taking the oath as Governor on 30 July 2019. Law career ĭhankhar enrolled with the Bar Council of Rajasthan as an Advocate in 1979. ĭhankhar married Sudesh Dhankhar in 1979, and they have a daughter, Kamna. Dhankhar completed his primary and middle school education from Kithana Government School and Ghardhana Government School respectively. He completed his school education from Sainik School, Chittorgarh and then graduated in B.Sc and LLB from the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. He has also been a member of Janata Dal and Indian National Congress in the past.ĭhankhar the current vice president of India was born on, in Kithana, a small village in the Jhunjhunu district of Rajasthan, India into a Hindu Jat family to parents Gokal Chand and Kesari Devi. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was a member of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly from 1993 to 1998.Dhankar was a member of Lok Sabha from 1989 to 1991. He served as the Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs under the Chandra Shekhar ministry from 1990 to 1991. He also served as the Governor of West Bengal from 2019 to 2022. Jagdeep Dhankhar (born ) is an Indian politician and lawyer who is serving as the 14th and current Vice President of the Republic of India since 2022.
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