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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.

5 Key Points About Jagdeep Dhankhar, India's New Vice President

Jagdeep Dhankhar, 71, will succeed M Venkaiah Naidu as the vice president of India.

New Delhi: Former West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar is the new Vice President of India after defeating Opposition candidate Margaret Alva by 346 votes.

Here are 5 facts about Jagdeep Dhankhar:

  1. Jagdeep Dhankhar, a Jat, was born in 1951 into a farmer's family in Kithana, a small village in Rajasthan.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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. 



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