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Former Vice-President and Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar chairing a session of the Upper House of Parliament. (ANI/File)
A month after stepping down as Vice-President, citing health reasons, Jagdeep Dhankhar stepped out of his official residence and went to the Army’s Research and Referral Hospital in Dhaula Kuan to see a dentist. He is also learnt to have decided to vacate the V-P’s official residence this evening and shift to a farmhouse of Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) chief Abhay Singh Chautala in South Delhi’s Chattarpur Enclave.
Dhankhar, 74, has kept away from the public eye since his resignation on July 21. “For the past month, he has been walking (inside the V-P’s official residence) and meeting his relatives and old friends at his residence. Today he came out to visit a doctor,” said a source, indicating this was his first outing since he stepped down as V-P.
“He has conveyed to security agencies that he will shift to a private accommodation in Gadaipur DLF farms, Chattarpur Enclave, around 5 pm. Many of the belongings have already been shifted, while several household items have been moved to a flat inside the V-P’s official residence,” the source said.
When contacted, Chautala confirmed that Dhankar is shifting to his farmhouse. “We have old family relations, and he did not ask me for a house; I offered him one,” he said.
Dhankar’s wife, Sudesh Dhankhar, had travelled to Kithana, a village in Rajasthan’s Jhunjhunu district where Dhankhar was born, and to Jaipur last week by road.
The vice-presidential elections are scheduled for September 9, and Dhankhar has to vacate the V-P’s official residence, near the Parliament House Complex, before that. He had moved into the V-P’s official residence in April last year, and until he gets government accommodation, he will remain at Chattarpur Enclave.
Last week, he also re-applied to the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly Secretariat for pension as a former legislator. A former MLA from Rajasthan’s Kishangarh between 1993 and 1998, Dhankhar had been receiving MLA’s pension until 2019, when he was appointed the Governor of West Bengal. He was elected Vice-President in 2022.
Mahender Singh Manral is an Assistant Editor with the national bureau of The Indian Express. He is known for his impactful and breaking stories. He covers the Ministry of Home Affairs, Investigative Agencies, National Investigative Agency, Central Bureau of Investigation, Law Enforcement Agencies, Paramilitary Forces, and internal security. Prior to this, Manral had extensively reported on city-based crime stories along with that he also covered the anti-corruption branch of the Delhi government for a decade. He is known for his knack for News and a detailed understanding of stories. He also worked with Mail Today as a senior correspondent for eleven months. He has also worked with The Pioneer for two years where he was exclusively covering crime beat. During his initial days of the career he also worked with The Statesman newspaper in the national capital, where he was entrusted with beats like crime, education, and the Delhi Jal Board. A graduate in Mass Communication, Manral is always in search of stories that impact lives. ... Read More
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