Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar resigns

Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar
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Jagdeep Dhankhar has resigned from the put up of the Vice President. With this, he can even not be the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha.

His time period because the Vice President was to finish on August 10, 2027.

“To prioritise well being care and abide by medical recommendation, I hereby resign because the Vice President of India, efficient instantly,” Dhankhar stated in a letter to the President Draupadi Murmu. On August 11, 2022, he took over because the 14th Vice President of India and Chairman of Rajya Sabha.

A famend lawyer and former West Bengal Governor, Dhankhar, was elected to the Parliament of India in 1989 from Jhunjhunu Parliamentary Constituency. Subsequently, he additionally served as a Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs in 1990. In 1993, he was elected to the Rajasthan meeting from the Kishangarh constituency in Ajmer district. As a legislator, he served because the member of necessary committees within the Lok Sabha and the Rajasthan Legislative Meeting. As Union Minister, he was additionally a member of a delegation as Deputy Chief of a Parliamentary Group to the European Parliament.

In July 2019, Dhankhar was appointed because the Governor of West Bengal.

A lawyer by occupation

Previous to his political life, he started his skilled profession as a lawyer, and regardless of being a first-generation skilled, he rose to be among the many high authorized specialists within the nation. In 1990, he was designated as Senior Advocate by the Excessive Court docket of Judicature for Rajasthan. Ever since, Dhankhar has been practising primarily within the Supreme Court docket and his focus areas of litigation have been within the area of Metal, Coal, Mining and Worldwide Business Arbitration, amongst others. 

He has appeared in varied Excessive Courts within the nation and was the senior-most designated Senior Advocate of the State until assuming the Workplace of the Governor of West Bengal on July 30, 2019. Throughout his authorized profession, Dhankhar was the youngest particular person to be elected because the President of the Rajasthan Excessive Court docket Bar Affiliation, Jaipur, in 1987. He additionally grew to become a Member of the Rajasthan Bar Council in 1988.

Revealed on July 21, 2025