Jagdeep Dhankhar: A politician, lawyer who braved all odds to become Vice President of India
He previously served as the Governor of West Bengal from 2019 to 2022.
New Delhi: Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar resigned on Monday, July 21, 2025. Jagdeep Dhankhar served because the vp of India from 2022 to 2025.
Jagdeep Dhankhar as flesh presser
He has been affiliated with extra than one political parties in India, at the side of the Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP), the Indian Nationwide Congress (INC), and the Janata Dal (JD).
He beforehand served because the Governor of West Bengal from 2019 to 2022. He additionally served as a Union Minister of Recount for Parliamentary Affairs within the Chandra Shekhar ministry from 1990 to 1991, and served as a member of Lok Sabha from 1989 to 1991. Between 1993 and 1998, he used to be a Member of Rajasthan’s Legislative Meeting.
His personal life
Jagdeep Dhankhar used to be born to Gokal Chand and Kesari Devi on 18 May, 1951 at Village Kithana, Jhunjhunu District, Rajasthan. He married Dr. Sudesh Dhankhar in 1979. The couple has a daughter, Kamna.
Had his early training from Class 1 to 5 in village Kithana, at the Government Main College. He handed from Chittorgarh, Sainik College, after taking the Indian College Certificates Examination known by the Cambridge College.
He graduated in B.Sc. (Honors) Physics from Maharaja’s College, Jaipur.
Jagdeep Dhankhar as recommend
He did LLB throughout 1978-1979 from the College of Rajasthan and used to be enrolled with the Bar Council of Rajasthan as an Advocate with discontinuance from 10.11.1979.
He used to be designated as senior recommend by the Excessive Court of Judicature for Rajasthan with discontinuance from 27.3.1990. Since 1990 Jagdeep Dhankhar had been practicing primarily within the Supreme Court and his focal point space of litigation agree with been within the discipline of Metal, Coal, Mining and Global Business Arbitration, amongst others.
He has appeared in a lot of Excessive Courts within the country and used to be the senior-most designated Senior Advocate of the Recount until assuming the Jam of job of the Governor on 30 July, 2019.
How he was the vp?
The BJP nominated Dhankhar because the Nationwide Democratic Alliance’s candidate on 16 July 2022, for Vice President of India for the 2022 election in August. He contested against the United Opposition’s candidate, Margaret Alva. The elections had been conducted on 6 August 2022 and, on the identical evening, the votes had been counted. Dhankhar emerged victorious by securing 528 votes out of 710 true votes over opposition candidate Margaret Alva’s 182.
Dhankar assumed the distance of commercial on 11 August 2022 succeeding Venkaiah Naidu.
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