Vice -President Jagdeep Dhankhar, 74, resigned from his post, who quoted health reasons on Monday (21 July 2025).
“To give priority to health care and observe the medical council, I hereby resign as the vice president of India, effective immediately, in accordance with Article 67 (a) the Constitution,” said the resignation letter addressed to President Murmu, who was published on the official account of Vice President X, said. In the evening he called on President Murmu.
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Mr. Dhankhar suffered a heart event in March, but allegedly recovered and has since participated in his obligations. The rest of the letter expressed his “deep gratitude” to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Council of the Ministers, as well as the “heat, trust and affection” he received from the deputies.
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This step came with a surprise to many leaders, because Mr. Dhankhar chaired the monsoon meeting in the first half of the first day of the monsoon meeting on Monday the first half of the first day of the monsoon meeting, which he chaired on Monday’s Day of Varma. He was not going to be carried after sitting, but until the evening he talked to the deputies and leaders of the floor.
Several deputies he spoke to Hind said he had no hint of quitting. He also chaired the meeting of the Advice Advisory Committee in the upper house at 12:30 sources that it is unlikely that Rajya Sabha would participate on Tuesday.
At 15:53 PM, Press Information Bureau, he also issued a press release that reported that Mr. Dhankhar was heading to Jaipur during a day’s visit, where he was to communicate with the newly selected members of the Confederation of the Association of Developers in the Real Estate (CRIDAI). Congress’s leader said he spoke to Mr. Dhankhar at 19:30 and the vice -chairman did not mean any hint of his decision.
Mr. Dhankhar, who was the Governor of West Bengal before he was elected Vice President, had a busy term of office, especially as regards his public manifestations and his role as chairman Rajya Sabha.
In December 2024, Vice -President Rajya Sabha Harivank Narayan Singh rejected a proposal for a prosecution against Mr. Dhankhar, who moved the opposition and described him as “step towards the dignity of constitutional authority”, reflecting somewhat test relations between law and alone.
As a vice -chairman, Mr. Dhankhar also spoke freely about the questions he cared about. He called from rural, agricultural background and talked about farmers and the need for open dialogue, because fresh protests of farmers came in December 2024. While he spoke to events in Mumbai, where he shared the stage with the Minister of Agriculture Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Mr. Dhankhar raised the need to open a dialogue with farmers.
President Murmu did not indicate whether she had accepted the resignation.
Among the decisions awaiting Mr. Dhankhar, there was a proposal for a indictment that moved 54 opposition deputies in December last year against the judge of the High Court in Allahabad Shekhar Yadav for alleged hate speeches. It has been reported that the Secretariat of Rajya Sabha is acquainted and verifies the signatories of movement. So far, at least 50 names have been verified by the upper house secretariat, which is a minimum required amount. There is no time framework for deciding on the announcement submitted under the Act on Referees (Investigation) of 1968.
According to the opposition deputy, Mr. Dhankhar told him on Monday around 16:00 that he would speak in the proposals for the indictment of the house, both against Judge Yadav and with justice Varma.
The head of the congress and the side of the party in the upper chamber Jairam Ramesh said that Mr. Dhankhar’s resignation was “inexplicable” and “shocking. In the X post, he said,” I was with him along with a number of other deputies around 17:00.
He said that while Mr. Dhankhar had to give his health the highest priority, his absolutely unexpected resignation was much more than he met with the eye. “He was supposed to make some of the main announcements on the judiciary tomorrow,” he added. Mr. Dhankhar also remedied the meeting of the Commercial Committee tomorrow at 1 pm Tomorrow at 1 pm
When Mr. Ramesh praised the Vice President to take over the rule and the opposition to the same degree, he hoped that Mr. Modi would make Mr. Dhankhar to change his mind. “This will be in the interest of the nation. The agricultural community will be very relieved,” Ramesh said.
Published – July 21st 2025 9:51 IS IS
