The BJP today named West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar as the NDA’s candidate for the post of Vice President, the election for which is scheduled for August 6.
Vice President Election: Jagdeep Dhankhar took charge as the Governor of West Bengal in the middle of 2019. After that, he repeatedly clashed with West Bengal s ruling party Trinamool Congress and the state government. With the numbers in BJP s votes, the election of Jagdeep Dhankhar for the post of Vice President is now a matter of time
NEW DELHI, July 16: The BJP today named West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar, a Jat leader from Rajasthan with socialist background, as the ruling National Democratic Alliance’s Vice Presidential candidate. Making the announcement, BJP president J P Nadda lauded Dhankhar as a “kisan-putra” (son of farmer) who, he said, established himself as a “people’s Governor”. Dhankhar’s election as Vice President is almost a certainty as the BJP has a majority in the electoral college comprising members of Lok Sabha and […]
When West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar was announced as the surprise choice of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) for the office of the Vice President, political observers in Kolkata, where he has spent the last three years engaged in an almost daily sparring match with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, started reading the signals being sent out by the BJP top brass.