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Jagdeep Dhankhar (born 18 May 1950) is an Indian politician and lawyer, serving as the 14th and current vice president of India since 2022. ... Dhankar assumed the office on 11 August 2022 succeeding Venkaiah Naidu, with the oath administered by the President of India, Droupadi Murmu in the central banquet hall of the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Designated as Senior Advocate by the High Court of Judicature for Rajasthan with effect from 27.3.1990, Since 1990 Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar had been practicing primarily in the Supreme Court and his focus area of litigation have been in the field of Steel, Coal, Mining and International Commercial Arbitration, amongst others. He has appeared in various High Courts in the country and was the senior-most designated Senior Advocate of the State till assuming the Office of the Governor on 30 July ...
1 day ago · Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar invoked the Emergency period during his address to both Houses of Parliament, calling it the "darkest chapter" of direct attack on the Constitution. "The entire country felt outraged, but the country emerged victorious over unconstitutional forces," Dhankhar said. On Wednesday too, while addressing an event, Dhankhar said India won't see Emergency again under any circumstances.
The Vice-President, Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar and Dr. Sudesh Dhankhar being welcomed by Shri Mangubhai Patel, Governor of Madhya Pradesh, Dr. Mohan Yadav, Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Shri Prahlad Singh Patel and Shri Rakesh Singh,Ministers, Government of Madhya Pradesh and other dignitaries on their arrival in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh on June 19, 2024.
Aug 7, 2022 · Here are 5 facts about Jagdeep Dhankhar: Jagdeep Dhankhar, a Jat, was born in 1951 into a farmer's family in Kithana, a small village in Rajasthan. Mr Dhankhar started as a lawyer and has ...
Aug 11, 2022 · Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar began his professional career as a lawyer, and despite being first generational professional, he rose to be among the top legal experts in the country. In 1990, he was designated as Senior Advocate by the High Court of Judicature for Rajasthan. Ever since, Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar has been practicing primarily in the Supreme Court and his focus areas of litigation have been in the field of Steel, Coal, Mining and International Commercial Arbitration, amongst others. ...
Former West Bengal governor Jagdeep Dhankhar was on Saturday elected as the 14th Vice President of India after he defeated the Opposition’s candidate Margaret Alva by 346 votes.. Prime Minister ...
Aug 6, 2022 · Jagdeep Dhankar went on to become the Governor of West Bengal in 2019. He has championed issues related to Other Backward Classes, including the grant of OBC status to the Jat community in Rajasthan. In his personal life, Jagdeep Dhankhar is known as an avid reader and a sports aficionado and has been the President of the Rajasthan Olympic Association, and Rajasthan Tennis Association. He married Sudesh and they have a daughter together.
Jagdeep Dhankhar was elected as the Vice President on August 6, securing 74.36 per cent – the highest ever votes received in the last six vice presidential elections held since 1997. He defeated ...
Jagdeep Dhankhar, who is a lawyer by profession, joined politics in 1989. He became the governor of West Bengal in July 2019 and has made headlines since then over his tumultuous relations with ...
Aug 11, 2022 · National Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidate and former West Bengal governor Jagdeep Dhankhar took oath as the 14th Vice-President of India on Thursday, August 11. President Droupadi Murmu administered the oath at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. On August 6, Jagdeep Dhankhar was elected as the Vice-President after defeating the Opposition's Margaret Alva.
Aug 7, 2022 · Former West Bengal Governor and NDA candidate Jagdeep Dhankar was elected as the 14th Vice President of India on Saturday, defeating joint opposition nominee Margaret Alva by a huge margin of 346 votes. Dhankar, a kisan leader and lawyer by profession, got 74% of the valid votes cast by members of the two Houses of Parliament. The 71-year-old leader, who hails from the Jat community of Rajasthan, was set to win the Vice Presidential elections from the start as the numbers were heavily ...
Aug 11, 2022 · Former West Bengal governor Jagdeep Dhankhar is all set to take oath as the 14th Vice President of India today at 12:30 pm. Dhankhar received 528 votes and defeated the joint opposition candidate ...
Aug 7, 2022 · 1). Jagdeep used to walk 6 km to attend school. Jagdeep Dhankhar was born in Kithana Village, Rajasthan in 1951. Grown up in a family of farmers, Jagdeep has been inculcated with the value of ...
Aug 6, 2022 · National Democratic Alliance candidate and former West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar will be the 14 th Vice-President of the country. He secured 528 votes out of the 710 valid votes in the 16 ...
Aug 7, 2022 · Interestingly, the 71-year-old Jagdeep Dhankar is also the first BJP nominee for the V-P post to not have started his political journey in the Sangh Parivar. Dhankhar is the second Vice-President ...
Aug 7, 2022 · Jagdeep Dhankar won by 346 votes. 528 out of 725 votes were in his favour. 15 votes were termed invalid. On the other hand, Margaret Alva won 182 votes. Facts to know about Jagdeep Dhankar: Jagdeep Dhankar was born on May 18, 1951, in an agrarian household in Jhunjhunu Rajasthan. He did school at Sainik School, Chittorgarh and completed graduation in Physics.
Jul 16, 2022 · West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar, who was declared the NDA’s candidate for Vice-President on Saturday, has had a career in public life that stretches to over three decades. He had been a ...
Jul 17, 2022 · Jagdeep Dhankhar is NDA’s Vice-President candidate A first-generation professional as a lawyer, Mr. Dhankhar was appointed as the Governor of West Bengal in July 2019 Updated - July 17, 2022 09: ...
1 day ago · Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, while addressing the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of Central Electronics on Wednesday said that the imposition of an emergency had plunged the world's largest ...
