Dikhyaa Mohanty 
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president J. P. Nadda on Saturday declared that West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar would be the National Democratic Alliance’s (NDA) candidate for the post of Vice President of India.
According to the official reports, the announcement was made at a press conference after a meeting of the BJP’s parliamentary board, the party’s highest decision-making authority, which includes Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Home Minister Amit Shah, Roads and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari, and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
“BJP’s parliamentary board has come to the decision that we nominate ‘ kisan putra’ (son of a farmer) Jagdeep Dhankhar as the NDA’s candidate for Vice President of India. We all know that Jagdeep Dhankhar- ji is currently West Bengal Governor and has been in public life for over three decades. He belongs to a family of farmers and he overcame socio-economic hurdles in his life to go on to high achievement in public life,” Mr Nadda said.
“He grew up in a village in Jhunjhunu district, and he studied in a village school and later in a Sainik School in Chittorgarh district. He later got a degree in Physics from Rajasthan University along with a degree in law. He is a first-generation professional as a lawyer, and in a very short time, he established himself as a meritorious lawyer in the Rajasthan High Court and later the Supreme Court as well. He fought the Lok Sabha polls in 1989 and was Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs in 1990. He also became an MLA from the Kishangarh seat in the Alwar district of Rajasthan. We know that his image as a Governor has been that of a people’s Governor. All these things were kept in mind as the BJP nominated him to be the NDA nominee for the post of Vice President,” Mr Nadda added.
