5 Key Points About Jagdeep Dhankhar, India's New Vice President
BJP-led NDA candidate Jagdeep Dhankhar won the election comfortably with 528 votes against Margaret Alva's 182.
Jagdeep Dhankhar, 71, will succeed M Venkaiah Naidu as the vice president of India.
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 practised in the Supreme Court and the Rajasthan High Court. He was designated a senior advocate in 1990, a year after he entered active politics.
- He was closely associated with former deputy prime minister of India Chaudhary Devi Lal and followed his mentor when the latter walked out of the VP Singh government and became a union minister in 1990 in the minority government led by Chandra Shekhar.
- He joined the Congress when PV Narasimha Rao became the prime minister. But with the rise of Ashok Gehlot in Rajasthan, he changed ships to the BJP.
- Mr Dhankhar was appointed as the Governor of West Bengal in July 2019. During his tenure, he had regular run-ins with chief minister Mamata Banerjee.
