Vice President

'Inspiring, encouraging, rewarding' : PM Modi showers accolades on outgoing RS chairman Venkaiah Naidu

Naidu demits office on Wednesday and his successor Jagdeep Dhankhar will take the oath of office on 11 August

Dalai Lama congratulates Vice President-elect Jagdeep Dhankhar

'As someone who has lived here for most of my life, I consider myself very much part of Indian society. It is auspicious that you are taking up this position on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of India's independence,' the Dalai Lama said in the letter to Dhankhar

‘Happy to be ‘ushapati’: As Venkaiah Naidu's term as vice-president comes to an end, a look at his witty one-liners

Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his farewell address to Venkaiah Naidu in the Rajya Sabha celebrated the vice-president's presence of mind, saying his 'one-liners are wit-liners'

Vice presidential polls LIVE: PM Modi congratulates Jagdeep Dhankhar on becoming Vice-President

Vice presidential polls LIVE: The 80-year-old Margaret Alva is a Congress veteran and has served as governor of Rajasthan and Uttarakhand, while the 71-year-old Jagdeep Dhankhar is a Jat leader from Rajasthan with socialist background

Jagdeep Dhankhar second leader from Rajasthan to get elected vice-president

Celebrations also took place at the state BJP headquarters in Jaipur where people danced to the beats of dhols and distributed sweets.

Vice-Presidential polls: Akali Dal supports NDA nominee Jagdeep Dhankhar

Akali Dal had been an old ally of the BJP before it pulled out of NDA due to the anti farm laws agitation in 2020, but recently in June the party had supported the NDA's presidential candidate Draupadi Murmu as well

Presidential and VP polls have left Opposition more vulnerable than before

While the BJP has used these elections to strengthen its hands ahead of the upcoming state polls and the 2024 general elections, its moves have weakened the Opposition considerably

Margaret Alva’s five damning revelations about Sonia Gandhi, Congress

Joint Opposition candidate for Vice President Congress veteran Margaret Alva, who faces NDA’s Jagdeep Dhankhar, has made a comeback, but her history with Congress and its leaders, especially Sonia Gandhi, has been a turbulent one

Vice-presidential election: Ex-governor Margaret Alva declared joint Opposition candidate

The decision to field Alva was taken at a meeting of Opposition leaders of 17 parties at the residence of NCP supremo Sharad Pawar

With Jagdeep Dhankhar as VP pick, BJP eyes the Jat community and a bid to woo farmers in UP, Haryana post agri laws

By making Dhankhar, a Jat, and a learned lawmaker, its candidate for the VP, the BJP has attempted to trigger the deep fissures within the opposition parties that claimed themselves to be representing the Jat community in various states, predominantly in Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Rajasthan