Jagdeep Dhankhar was born on 18 May 1951 and is an Indian politician and lawyer, who has been the Vice President of the Republic of India since 2022.
25 Facts About Jagdeep Dhankhar
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Jagdeep Dhankhar previously served as the Governor of West Bengal from 2019 to 2022.
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Jagdeep Dhankhar served as a Union Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs in the Chandra Shekhar ministry from 1990 to 1991.
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Jagdeep Dhankhar was a member of Lok Sabha from 1989 to 1991 and later a member of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly from 1993 to 1998.
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Jagdeep Dhankhar has been affiliated with multiple political parties in India, including the Bharatiya Janata Party, Indian National Congress and Janata Dal.
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Jagdeep Dhankhar completed his primary and middle school education from Kithana Government School and Ghardhana Government School respectively.
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Jagdeep Dhankhar married Sudesh Jagdeep Dhankhar in 1979, and they have a daughter, Kamna.
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Jagdeep Dhankhar enrolled with the Bar Council of Rajasthan as an Advocate in 1979.
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Jagdeep Dhankhar was designated as Senior Advocate by the High Court of Judicature for Rajasthan in 1990, and was the senior-most designated Senior Advocate of the state till taking the oath as Governor on 30 July 2019.
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Since 1990, Jagdeep Dhankhar had been practicing primarily in the Supreme Court of India.
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Jagdeep Dhankhar has appeared in various High Courts of India.
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Jagdeep Dhankhar is a former President of Rajasthan High Court Bar Association, Jaipur.
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Jagdeep Dhankhar had appeared in the Sutlej River water dispute in 2016, he argued on behalf of the state of Haryana in the Supreme Court of India.
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Jagdeep Dhankhar has been a member of Janata Dal and Indian National Congress in past.
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Jagdeep Dhankhar lost the 1991 Indian general election from Ajmer Lok Sabha constituency.
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Jagdeep Dhankhar lost the 1998 Indian general election from Jhunjhunu Lok Sabha constituency and came on third position.
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Jagdeep Dhankhar was a member of 2008 assembly election campaign committee of BJP.
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Jagdeep Dhankhar had been a vocal critic of the Third Banerjee ministry, and frequently used Twitter and media to attack the West Bengal government over political issues.
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The Hindu, newspaper in its editorial noted that it appeared on several occasions that "Jagdeep Dhankhar was playing a partisan role in State politics, in tandem with the BJP".
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Jagdeep Dhankhar resigned as Governor on 17 July 2022, after being nominated as the vice-presidential candidate of the National Democratic Alliance.
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Jagdeep Dhankhar has been projected as a kisan putra by the BJP.
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Jagdeep Dhankhar contested against the United Opposition's candidate, Margaret Alva, a former Union Minister and Governor from the Indian National Congress.
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On 18 July 2022, Jagdeep Dhankhar filed his nomination papers for the Vice-president elections.
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Jagdeep Dhankhar was accompanied by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and several other union ministers and BJP politicians.
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Jagdeep Dhankhar emerged victorious by securing 528 votes out of the 725 MP votes from the lower and upper houses polled.