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The vice-presidential polls are set to take place on September 9 with INDIA bloc candidate B Sudershan Reddy all set to face NDA pick CP Radhakrishnan.Jagdeep Dhankhar stepped down on July 21, the opening day of the Monsoon session, citing health concerns. He has since stayed out of the public eye and had been residing…
NEW DELHI: AIMIM has offered its support for INDIA bloc’s vice-presidential candidate Sudershan Reddy for the upcoming VP polls, Asaduddin Owaisi announced on Saturday.“@TelanganaCMO spoke to me today and requested that we support Justice Sudershan Reddy as Vice President. @aimim_national will extend its support to Justice Reddy, a fellow Hyderabadi and a respected jurist. I…
NEW DELHI: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday said he has no information on the actual reason for Jagdeep Dhankhar’s resignation as Vice President, holding that it was for Dhankhar to tell what really happened, as the matter was between him and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.“I don’t know all those details. He (Dhankhar) was always…
jagdeep Dhankhar (File photo) NEW DELHI: Before he surprised political circles by announcing his resignation, Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar alarmed Rashtrapati Bhavan officials by turning up to meet President Droupadi Murmu without an appointment.The protocol-driven President’s secretariat has not had to deal with such unexpected developments in a long time. Not surprisingly, the unscheduled arrival of…
NEW DELHI: Jagdeep Dhankhar’s sudden resignation from the post of Vice President has triggered an unexpected wave of admiration from opposition MPs, many of whom had previously clashed with him over alleged partisanship.Several leaders who once accused Dhankhar of bias or filed a no-confidence motion against him are now urging him to reconsider his decision,…
Unlike his predecessors, Jagdeep Dhankhar, in his three years as Vice-President of India, courted controversies for the statements he made inside and outside Parliament. While he took a different stand from the government on farmers’ protests, he was vehement about corruption in the judiciary. He gave philosophical warnings to the government in a veiled manner…
NEW DELHI: Vice-president Jagdeep Dhankhar resigned from his post on Monday evening, citing medical reasons. His decision has opened the field for the selection of a new vice-president.In his resignation letter to President Droupadi Murmu, Dhankhar wrote: “To prioritise health care and abide by medical advice, I hereby resign as vice-president of India, effective immediately,…
Jagdeep Dhankhar (PTI file photo) NEW DELHI: Jagdeep Dhankhar on late Monday resigned as vice president, citing health issues and the need to adhere to medical advice. He tendered his resignation to President Droupadi Murmu, invoking Article 67 (a) of the Constitution.Dhankhar, 74, who assumed office as vice president in 2022, was constitutionally set to…
