Jagdeep Dhankhar

Jagdeep Dhankhar is an Indian lawyer and politician who served as the 14th Vice President of India from 11 August 2022 until his resignation in July 2025. He was born on 18 May 1951 in Kithana, Jhunjhunu district, Rajasthan, studied at the University of Rajasthan and enrolled as an advocate with the Bar Council of Rajasthan in 1979.

The Rajasthan High Court designated him a Senior Advocate in 1990, and he practised mainly constitutional law in the Supreme Court of India. He represented Jhunjhunu in the Lok Sabha from 1989 to 1991 as a member of the Janata Dal. He was Governor of West Bengal from 30 July 2019 until July 2022, when he was nominated as the National Democratic Alliance candidate for vice president. He belongs to the Bharatiya Janata Party.

He was in the news in November 2026 after he collapsed during a morning walk on 11 November, was treated at AIIMS in New Delhi and was discharged on 14 November, PTI reported. No diagnosis has been made public.

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