Highlights
- Jagdeep Dhankhar is the second vice chairman from Rajasthan after Bhairon Singh Shekhawat
- Dhankhar, who had been related to Janata Dal and Congress, joined BJP solely in 2008
- BJP has described Dhankhar as “kisan putra”
Jagdeep Dhankhar will take oath of workplace as the 14th Vice President of India at 12:30 PM. President Droupadi Murmu will administer him the oath. M Venkaiah Naidu’s time period as Vice President ended on August 10, 2022. The Vice President can also be the chairman of the Rajya Sabha.Â
The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance(NDA) candidate Jagdeep Dhankhar was elected as the nation’s 14th Vice President in a victory that was a foregone conclusion as he trounced the Opposition’s candidate Margaret Alva by an enormous margin.Â
Dhankhar, a former governor of West Bengal who can even preside over the Rajya Sabha which has been witnessing opposition protests over a spread of points, secured 528 votes in opposition to Alva’s 182. His victory margin was the best since 1997. The members of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha kind the electoral school for the vice presidential elections.
Soon after Dhankhar, 71, was declared as the winner with an enormous vote share of over 74 per cent, the best within the final six vice-presidential elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met him and congratulated him on his victory with resounding help throughout occasion strains, and stated it was a proud second for India to have a “kisan putra” (farmer’s son) as vice chairman.
Dhankhar would be the second vice chairman from Rajasthan after Bhairon Singh Shekhawat who held the workplace between 2002 and 2007. With Dhankhar’s election, the presiding officers of each Houses of Parliament will likely be from Rajasthan. Currently, Om Birla who was elected to the Lok Sabha from Rajasthan’s Kota is the Lok Sabha speaker. The numbers have been closely stacked in favour of Dhankhar as the ruling BJP enjoys an absolute majority in Lok Sabha and has 91 members in Rajya Sabha.
Even earlier than the outcomes have been introduced, celebrations had began outdoors the residence of Minister Pralhad Joshi the place Dhankhar was current.Â
Joyous scenes have been additionally reported from Rajasthan’s Jhunjhunu, the hometown of Dhankhar. In Jhunjhunu’s Kithana village, hordes of folks have been current at Dhankhar’s home and danced in celebrations. Sweets have been additionally distributed.
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Dhankhar, who had been related to the Janata Dal and the Congress, joined the BJP solely in 2008 after a hiatus of practically a decade when he focused on his authorized profession. A person of many pursuits, Dhankhar’s lengthy authorized profession on the Rajasthan High Court and the Supreme Court and a short stint as the junior parliamentary affairs minister on the Centre is anticipated to come in useful as he presides over the Rajya Sabha.
He has championed points associated to Other Backward Classes, together with the grant of OBC standing to the Jat neighborhood in Rajasthan. The BJP described Dhankhar as “kisan putra” whereas asserting his candidature for the vice presidential election, a transfer seen within the political circles geared toward reaching out to the politically vital Jat neighborhood which had participated in big numbers within the year-long farmers’ protests on the borders of the nationwide capital in opposition to agriculture reform measures unveiled in June 2020.
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