Jagdeep Dhankhar to take oath as 14th Vice President on August 11
New Delhi [India], August 11: Former West Bengal Governor and National Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidate Jagdeep Dhankhar to take oath as the next Vice President of India' on August 11.
Meanwhile, President Droupadi Murmu will administer the Oath of Office to the elected Vice-President of India Jagdeep Dhankhar at Rashtrapati Bhavan at 11:45 am today.
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Jagdeep was elected and declared as the Vice President on August 6 by defeating the Opposition's Margaret Alva.
Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar and Election Commissioner Anup Chandra Pandey jointly signed the 'Certification of the Election of Jagdeep Dhankar as the next Vice President of India'.
Dhankhar secured 74.36 per cent with the highest winning margin in the last six vice presidential elections held since 1997.
Meanwhile, Dhankhar has practised in both the Rajasthan High Court and the Supreme Court of India.
He entered public life after getting elected as a Member of Parliament from Jhunjhunu in the 1989 Lok Sabha elections on a Janata Dal ticket. He also served as a Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs in 1990. His politics was initially influenced by former deputy Prime Minister Devi Lal.
Dhankhar, who belongs to the Jat community, later shifted focus to state politics and was elected to the Rajasthan Assembly in 1993 from the Kishangarh constituency in Ajmer district.
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Dhankhar was appointed as the Governor of West Bengal in 2019. He resigned from the post of West Bengal Governor on July 17 after his name was announced as the Vice Presidential candidate of the National Democratic Alliance.
-PTC News with ANI inputs
