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Jagdeep Dhankhar the new Vice President, beat Margaret Alva: 10 points

August 6, 2022
Bharat Times

Jat Jagdeep Dhankhar was born in 1951 in a small village in Rajasthan in a farmer family.

New Delhi:
Former Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar was elected Vice President on Saturday. She beat the opposition’s Margaret Alva to emerge the winner.

The key points of this big story are as follows:

  1. The BJP-led NDA candidate comfortably won the election with 528 votes against Ms. Alva’s 182, for which voting was held earlier today. The Vice President is also the ex-officio Chairman of the Rajya Sabha.

  2. Mr. Dhankhar secured 74.36 per cent marks. He has the highest victory margin in the last six vice-presidential elections held since 1997.

  3. The Returning Officer for Vice Presidential Elections said that out of the total 780 voters, 725 cast their votes but 15 were found to be invalid. Voter turnout was 92.94 per cent, he said, adding that a candidate needs 356 votes to be elected.

  4. The Trinamool Congress, which has a total of 36 MPs, including 23 in the Lok Sabha, had avoided the election. However, two of its MPs voted. 55 MPs did not cast their vote in the Vice Presidential election held on Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm.

  5. Margaret Alva congratulated Mr Dhankhar on the victory. He also thanked the opposition leaders and MPs of all parties who voted for him in this election. “This election is over. The fight to protect our Constitution, strengthen our democracy and restore the dignity of Parliament will continue,” he posted on Twitter.

  6. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accompanied by BJP chief JP Nadda, went to congratulate Mr Dhankhar on his election as the Vice President.

  7. Mr. Dhankhar was supported by several other non-NDA parties – Naveen Patnaik’s Biju Janata Dal, Jaganmohan Reddy’s YSR Congress, Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party, Chandrababu Naidu’s Telugu Desam Party, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, Akali Dal and Shiv K Eknath. Shinde faction. army.

  8. Nine MPs from Telangana Rashtra Samithi, Aam Aadmi Party and Shiv Sena’s Uddhav Thackeray faction supported Ms. Alva.

  9. Mr. Dhankhar will be the second Vice President from Rajasthan after Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, who held the position between 2002 and 2007.

  10. Visuals of happiness also emerged from Jhunjhunu, the hometown of Mr Dhankhar in Rajasthan. Celebrations were also held at the state BJP headquarters in Jaipur where people danced to the beat of dhol and distributed sweets.