Jagdeep Dhankhar-NDA candidate for Vice President of India

WB Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar Named NDA Candidate For Vice President

BJP chief JP Nadda on Sunday, 16 July, announced that Jagdeep Dhankhar will be the NDA candidate for the post of Vice President of India.

The office of the vice president will fall vacant on 10 August, following the end of M Venkaiah Naidu's term.

The 71-year-old was appointed as governor by President Ram Nath Kovind on July 30, 2019.

Lauding the governor, PM Modi said Dhankhar always worked for the well-being of farmers, youth, women and the marginalised.

Prior to his present role as the governor, Dhankhar has been a noted lawyer and was instrumental in getting OBC status for Jats in Rajasthan.

His nomination means that the presiding officers of both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha will be from Rajasthan, among the only two states currently ruled by governments, which incidently goes to polls next year.

Born in an agrarian household in a remote village in Rajasthan's Jhunjhunu district, he completed his school education from Sainik School, Chittorgarh.

After finishing his graduation in Physics, he pursued LLB from the University of Rajasthan and has practiced in both the Rajasthan High Court and the Supreme Court of India.

After being elected as MP from Jhunjhunu in the 1989 Lok Sabha elections, he served as a Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs in 1990. In 1993, he was elected to the Rajasthan assembly from the Kishangarh constituency in Ajmer district.

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