Jagdeep Dhankhar’s resignation ‘totally unexpected’, more to it than meets the eye: Congress

Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar’s resignation on Monday evening was “totally unexpected”, and there seemed to be more to it than what met the eye, Congress MP Jairam Ramesh remarked.

Dhankhar cited medical reasons for stepping down from his post on the day when the Monsoon Session of Parliament began.

Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh on Monday, in a post on X, claimed that Dhankhar had scheduled a meeting of the Business Advisory Committee for Tuesday afternoon and was also expected to make “major announcements related to the judiciary”.

Reiterating the claim in another post on Tuesday morning, Ramesh said that there were “far deeper reasons” behind Dhankhar’s resignation.

He said that on Monday, Dhankhar had chaired a meeting of the Rajya Sabha’s Business Advisory Committee at 12.30 pm, which was attended by most members, including Leader of the House JP Nadda and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju.

It was decided that the committee would meet again at 4.30 pm, the Congress MP claimed. However, when the meeting reconvened in the evening, both Nadda and Rijiju were absent, he said.

Ramesh added that the vice president was not personally informed about their non-attendance and he took objection to the absence of the two ministers.

The meeting was rescheduled for 1 pm on Tuesday.

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