New Delhi:

Former West Bengal Governor and National Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidate Jagdeep Dhankhar will take oath as the following Vice President of India’ on Thursday.

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 lately.

Mr Dhankhar used to be elected because the Vice President on August 6. He defeated the Opposition’s Margaret Alva to emerge as a winner.

On August 7, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar and Election Commissioner Anup Chandra Pandey collectively signed the ‘Certification of the Election of Jagdeep Dhankar as the following Vice President of India’.

The BJP-led NDA candidate gained the election conveniently with 528 votes towards Margaret Alva’s 182. The Vice President may be the ex-officio Chairman of the Rajya Sabha.

Mr Dhankhar secured 74.36 in line with cent. He has the best possible successful margin within the final six vice presidential elections held since 1997.

The returning officer of the vice presidential election stated of the full 780 electors, 725 solid their ballots however 15 votes had been discovered to be invalid. The turnout used to be 92.94 in line with cent, he stated, including {that a} candidate wanted 356 votes to get elected.

The Trinamool Congress, which has a complete of 36 MPs, together with 23 in Lok Sabha, had abstained from the election. However, two of its MPs had solid their ballots. As many as 55 MPs didn’t vote within the vice presidential election.

Born on May 18, 1951, in an agrarian family in a village in Rajasthan’s Jhunjhunu district, Dhankhar finished his college training from Sainik School, Chittorgarh. After completing his commencement in physics, he pursued LLB from the University of Rajasthan. Despite being a first-generation skilled, he turned into some of the main attorneys within the state.

Mr Dhankhar, 71, has practised in each the Rajasthan High Court and the Supreme Court of India. He entered public existence after you have elected as a Member of Parliament from Jhunjhunu within the 1989 Lok Sabha elections on a Janata Dal price ticket. He additionally served as a Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs in 1990. His politics used to be to begin with influenced through former deputy Prime Minister Devi Lal.

Mr Dhankhar, who belongs to the Jat group, later shifted focal point to state politics and used to be elected to the Rajasthan Assembly in 1993 from the Kishangarh constituency in Ajmer district.

Mr Dhankhar used to be appointed because the Governor of West Bengal in 2019. He resigned from the publish of West Bengal Governor on July 17 after his identify used to be introduced because the vice Presidential candidate of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA).

The Vice President of India, which is the second-highest constitutional publish within the nation, is elected thru an electoral school consisting of participants of the Rajya Sabha and the Lok Sabha.

The Vice President may be the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha. Dhankar will preside over the lawsuits of the Upper House of Parliament at a time when there are obvious divisions between the treasury benches and the opposition.

With Dhankhar’s election as Vice-President, the presiding officials of each Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha shall be from Rajasthan.