Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar
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Jagdeep Dhankhar has resigned from the post of the Vice President. With this, he will also not be the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha.
His term as the Vice President was to end on August 10, 2027.
“To prioritise health care and abide by medical advice, I hereby resign as the Vice President of India, effective immediately,” Dhankhar said in a letter to the President Draupadi Murmu. On August 11, 2022, he took over as the 14th Vice President of India and Chairman of Rajya Sabha.
A renowned lawyer and former West Bengal Governor, Dhankhar, was elected to the Parliament of India in 1989 from Jhunjhunu Parliamentary Constituency. Subsequently, he also 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. As a legislator, he served as the member of important committees in the Lok Sabha and the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly. As Union Minister, he was also a member of a delegation as Deputy Leader of a Parliamentary Group to the European Parliament.
In July 2019, Dhankhar was appointed as the Governor of West Bengal.
A lawyer by profession
Prior to his political life, he began his professional career as a lawyer, and despite being a first-generation professional, he rose to be among the top legal experts in the country. In 1990, he was designated as Senior Advocate by the High Court of Judicature for Rajasthan. Ever since, Dhankhar has been practising primarily in the Supreme Court and his focus areas of litigation have been in the field of Steel, Coal, Mining and International Commercial Arbitration, amongst others.
He has appeared in various High Courts in the country and was the senior-most designated Senior Advocate of the State till assuming the Office of the Governor of West Bengal on July 30, 2019. During his legal career, Dhankhar was the youngest person to be elected as the President of the Rajasthan High Court Bar Association, Jaipur, in 1987. He also became a Member of the Rajasthan Bar Council in 1988.
Published on July 21, 2025