Jagdeep Dhankar was second vice president from Rajasthan after Bhairon singh shekhawat

National Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidate and former West Bengal governor Jagdeep Dhankhar was elected as the 14th Vice President of India. He has defeated the opposition candidate Margret Alva .Dhankar has secured 72.8% (528) votes of total 725 valid votes while Margret Alva got 182 Votes. 

Jagdeep Dhankar

 

Jagdeep Dhankhar's victory margin is the highest victory margin in the last six vice presidential polls.since 1997. KR Narayanan still leads the list for having the highest margin by securing 700 votes out of 701 votes cast in 1992. 

Earlier Mohammad Hamid Ansari of Congress has won the Vice Presidential Polls with 60.51% (762) votes in the year 2007. He remained Vice President of India from 2007 to 2017. Venkaiah Naidu of BJP has won with 67.89% votes in 2017 Vice President Elections.

Jagdeep Dhankar is 71 year old and he is the second vice president from Rajasthan after Bhairon singh shekhawat. Jagdeep Dhankar was born in a remote village of Rajasthan .After finishing his schooling at Sainik School Chandigarh , He did his graduation in Physics and later he pursued an LLB degree from the Rajasthan University. He became one of the leading lawyers in Rajasthan. He also headed the Rajasthan High court bar association. He did practice in both Rajasthan High Court and Supreme Court.

He entered into politics in 1989 and started his  journey in Sangh Parivar.He was elected to Lok Sabha from Jhunjhunj constituency in Rajasthan in 1989. He also worked as parliamentary affairs minister in the Janata dal government headed by Chandra Sekhar. Jagdeep joined in BJP in 2003 and he became more popular with the case against RSS leader Indresh Kumar. Later he became Governor of West Bengal in 2019.