New Delhi: Former West Bengal Governor and National Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidate Jagdeep Dhankhar will take oath as the subsequent Vice President of India` on Thursday. President Droupadi Murmu will administer the Oath of Office to the elected Vice-President of India Jagdeep Dhankhar at Rashtrapati Bhavan at 11:45 am today.
Dhankhar was elected as the Vice President on August 6. He defeated the Opposition`s Margaret Alva to emerge as a winner. On August 7, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar and Election Commissioner Anup Chandra Pandey collectively signed the `Certification of the Election of Jagdeep Dhankar as the subsequent Vice President of India`.
The BJP-led NDA candidate received the election comfortably with 528 votes towards Alva`s 182. The Vice President can also be the ex-officio Chairman of the Rajya Sabha. Dhankhar secured 74.36 per cent. He has the very best successful margin within the final six vice presidential elections held since 1997.
The returning officer of the vice-presidential election stated of the full 780 electors, 725 solid their ballots however 15 votes have been discovered to be invalid. The turnout was 92.94 per cent, he stated, including {that a} candidate wanted 356 votes to get elected.
The Trinamool Congress, which has a complete of 36 MPs, together with 23 in Lok Sabha, had abstained from the election. However, two of its MPs had solid their ballots. As many as 55 MPs didn’t vote within the vice presidential election.
Born on May 18, 1951, in an agrarian family in a village in Rajasthan`s Jhunjhunu district, Dhankhar accomplished his college training from Sainik School, Chittorgarh. After ending his commencement in physics, he pursued LLB from the University of Rajasthan. Despite being a first-generation skilled, he turned one of the main attorneys within the state.
Dhankhar, 71, has practised in each the Rajasthan High Court and the Supreme Court of India. He entered public life after getting elected as a Member of Parliament from Jhunjhunu within the 1989 Lok Sabha elections on a Janata Dal ticket.
He additionally served as a Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs in 1990. His politics was initially influenced by former deputy Prime Minister Devi Lal.
Dhankhar, who belongs to the Jat neighborhood, later shifted focus to state politics and was elected to the Rajasthan Assembly in 1993 from the Kishangarh constituency in Ajmer district.
Dhankhar was appointed as the Governor of West Bengal in 2019. He resigned from the submit of West Bengal Governor on July 17 after his title was introduced as the vice Presidential candidate of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA).
The Vice President of India, which is the second-highest constitutional submit within the nation, is elected by an electoral school consisting of members of the Rajya Sabha and the Lok Sabha.
The Vice President can also be the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha. Dhankar will preside over the proceedings of the Upper House of Parliament at a time when there are obvious divisions between the treasury benches and the opposition.
With Dhankhar`s election as Vice-President, the presiding officers of each Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha shall be from Rajasthan.Â
