Jagdeep Dhankhar’s Closeness With Opposition Did Not Go Unnoticed: Conferences With Kharge To Kejriwal
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Dhankhar tried to construct bridges with the Opposition to belie claims that he was being partisan because the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha
Jagdeep Dhankar just lately met Mallikarjun Kharge and Arvind Kejriwal. (X)
The Vice-President’s Workplace on July 15 posted a 44-second video of Chief of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge, paying Jagdeep Dhankhar a go to on the V-P Enclave.
Final Sunday, only a day earlier than the Monsoon Session of Parliament started, Dhankhar met Aam Aadmi Celebration (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal at his residence and posted footage of this assembly. Kejriwal just isn’t an MP.
Whereas such conferences are a part of official courtesy, they don’t appear to have gone unnoticed in these quarters of presidency which have additionally heard murmurs of Dhankhar being essential of the Narendra Modi authorities in such conferences with Opposition leaders. This can be a U-turn from 2024 when the Opposition leaders had introduced an impeachment movement in opposition to him and threatened to take away him because the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha for allegedly being partisan to them. Dhankhar was hospitalised in AIIMS in March for cardiac points.
But it surely appears publish March, Dhankhar tried to construct bridges with the Opposition to belie claims that he was being partisan because the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha. He usually met Kharge in addition to Jairam Ramesh of the Congress, alongside Congress Rajya Sabha MP Pramod Tiwari. Each Ramesh and Tiwari are actually on the forefront questioning why Dhankhar had put in his papers all of a sudden and advocated that the federal government should persuade him to take again the resignation. That is full sea change from final December.
The Opposition desires a productive Rajya Sabha session from July twenty first. For that to occur various strategic, political, international coverage and socio-economic points which can be of nice public concern must be debated and mentioned.In the present day, I known as on the Hon’ble Chairman of the… pic.twitter.com/FG529olfUC
— Mallikarjun Kharge (@kharge) July 15, 2025
Exceeding Remit: Like On NJAC
Dhankhar has been a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) man until he was chosen because the West Bengal Governor by the Modi authorities in 2019, the place he took on the Mamata Banerjee authorities. In 2022, Dhankhar was elevated because the Vice-President of India. However currently, the federal government felt he was exceeding his remit by talking on points he had no jurisdiction over. The prime instance was his ‘marketing campaign’ to deliver again an NJAC-like physique after the Justice Yashwant Verma matter got here to mild. He met ground leaders within the Rajya Sabha over the problem as properly.
However the authorities was clearly in no temper to upset the judiciary with a transfer just like the NJAC. Residence Minister Amit Shah at a CNN-News18 occasion just lately clearly mentioned the federal government had no such proposal. However Dhankhar’s continued public statements on this created an impression that it was the federal government which was prompting him to say so — which was not the case. Dhankhar was repeatedly additionally criticising why no FIR had been filed in opposition to Justice Yashwant Verma up to now. This was going far past his remit of Vice-President.
The Opposition desires a productive Rajya Sabha session from July twenty first. For that to occur various strategic, political, international coverage and socio-economic points which can be of nice public concern must be debated and mentioned.In the present day, I known as on the Hon’ble Chairman of the… pic.twitter.com/FG529olfUC
— Mallikarjun Kharge (@kharge) July 15, 2025
The ultimate set off for Dhankhar to resign is claimed to have been his telephonic argument on Monday night with a senior minister over why he had admitted an impeachment movement in opposition to Verma submitted by 65-odd Opposition MPs. Whereas the federal government was caught unawares on the transfer, Dhankhar is claimed to have cited his constitutional powers as Chairman of the Rajya Sabha to confess the discover. Afterward Monday, each Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) JP Nadda and Kiren Rijiju skipped a 4:30 PM assembly known as by Dhankhar.
All this confirmed issues had gone too far after a build-up of distrust over the previous couple of months.
What Subsequent?
The Modi authorities would like a loyal BJP chief as the following Vice-President because it doesn’t need to take any probabilities within the Rajya Sabha the place the numbers are delicately poised. Varied names are doing the rounds like Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, somebody from among the many different senior Cupboard Ministers or one among the senior BJP MPs within the Rajya Sabha. The following Vice-President will get a full five-year time period.
Aman Sharma, Govt Editor – Nationwide Affairs at CNN-News18, and Bureau Chief at News18 in Delhi, has over twenty years of expertise in masking the huge spectrum of politics and the Prime Minister’s Workplace….Learn Extra
Aman Sharma, Govt Editor – Nationwide Affairs at CNN-News18, and Bureau Chief at News18 in Delhi, has over twenty years of expertise in masking the huge spectrum of politics and the Prime Minister’s Workplace…. Learn Extra
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