India’s Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Monday evening, July 21, resigned from his post citing medical reasons.
He has sent his resignation to President Droupadi Murmu and said he was stepping down with immediate effect.
“To prioritise health care and abide by medical advice, I hereby resign as Vice President of India, effective immediately, in accordance with Article 67(a) of the Constituton,” Dhankhar said in his letter to the President.
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Dhankhar, 74, assumed office in August 2022.
He became the third vice president to have resigned mid-term.
Earlier, Vice President V V Giri, who had taken over as the acting president after the death of incumbent Zakir Hussain on May 3, 1969, had resigned from the post.
Giri resigned as the vice president on July 2, 1969 to contest the presidential election as an independent candidate.
Vice President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat resigned from the post on July 21, 2007, after being defeated in the presidential election against Congress-led UPA nominee Pratibha Patil.
After Shekhawat’s resignation, the vice president’s post was vacant for 21 days, before Mohammad Hamid Ansari was elected to the position.
Vice Presidents R Venkataraman, Shankar Dayal Sharma and K R Narayanan too had resigned from their posts, but after their election as the president.
Krishan Kant was the only vice president to die in office. He passed away on July 27, 2002.
