Governor of West Bengal Jagdeep Dhankhar has been recently in the news because he has been nominated the ice-presidential candidate of NDA, know his family, daughter, wife, son, biography
Jagdeep Dhankhar, the governor of West Bengal, has been named by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as the vice-presidential candidate of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA).
On Saturday, BJP president JP Nadda announced after attending the BJP Parliamentary Board meeting,
“The Bharatiya Janata Party Parliamentary Board has reached the conclusion that ‘kisan putra’ [farmer’s son] Jagdeep Dhankhar will be BJP and NDA’s candidate for the post of Vice President.”
Thank you @narendramodi ji for nominating me as the Vice President candidate for the vice presidential election 2022 pic.twitter.com/HRd3tGF4BP
— Jagdeep Dhankhar (@JagdeepDhankher) July 16, 2022
The meeting was also attended by PM Narendra Modi, Union ministers Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh and the Madhya Pradesh PM Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
Jagdeep Dhankhar India Vice-President NDA Candidate Age, Biography, Family, Wife, Daughter, Son, Education, Qualification, Profile, Cast And News
Since then, he has been a hot topic of discussion across all social media platforms and has been searched a lot. Many people are trying to find out more about him. So, here’s what we know about him:
Who Is Jagdeep Dhankhar?
Jagdeep Dhankhar is a famous Indian politician who is currently the governor of West Bengal. He has recently been in the headlines since the BJP-led NDA alliance chose him to be their vice-presidential candidate.
He was born on May 18, 1951, into a Hindu Jat family in the tiny village of Kithana, Rajasthan and is aged 71. Gokal Chand is his father, while Kesari Devi is his mother.
The Kithana Village School is where Dhankhar finished his elementary schooling. He finished his studies at Sainik School in Chittorgarh before receiving his B.Sc. and LLB degrees from the University of Rajasthan in Jaipur.
Jagdeep Dhankhar is married to Sudesh Dhankhar and they both had a daughter named Kamna.
He is affiliated with Bhartiya Janta Party for a long time.
His Career
In 1979, Jagdeep Dhankhar registered as an advocate with the Rajasthan Bar Council and began practising law there. He was appointed Senior Advocate by the High Court of Judicature for Rajasthan in 1990, and until he took the oath as governor on July 30, 2019, he was the state’s Senior Advocate with the greatest experience.
Dhankhar had focused his practice on the Supreme Court of India since 1990. He has appeared in a number of Indian High Courts. He served as the previous president of the Jaipur-based Rajasthan High Court Bar Association.
Between 1989 to 1991, he served as a Member Of Parliament (MP) of Janata Dal from Rajasthan’s Jhunjhunu Lok Sabha constituency. Additionally, from 1993 to 1998, he served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) representing Kishangarh, Rajasthan, in that state’s 10th Legislative Assembly.
He was appointed governor of West Bengal on July 30, 2019, by President Ram Nath Kovind and now, he has been working on that position.