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Rajya Sabha may form panel to probe hate speech charges against HC judge Shekhar Kumar Yadav

June 10, 2025 1:43 pm

Six months after Opposition MPs submitted a representation to Jagdeep Dhankhar with 55 signatures to bring an impeachment motion against the Allahabad High Court judge, verification of the signatures is underway

Pahalgam, Operation Sindoor show we have no option but to remain united: V-P Dhankhar

May 28, 2025 5:14 am

Referring to the Pahalgam terror attack and India’s strike on terror sites in Pakistan and PoK in response, the V-P said there was an “upsurge in nationalism”

The Article – granting the apex court the power to pass any order necessary to ensure “complete justice” in any case pending before it – “has become a nuclear missile against democratic forces, available to the judiciary 24×7”, V-P Jagdeep Dhankhar said. (Express Archive Photo by Partha Paul)

Art 142: Dubbed ‘nuclear missile’ by V-P Dhankhar, deployed by SC in cases from Ayodhya to Bhopal to Visakha

April 24, 2025 7:34 am

Article 142, which grants the apex court the power to pass any order necessary to ensure “complete justice”, was used sparingly until there was a spike in the 1990s amidst much political upheaval in country.

Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar during his first intraction with journalist women at his official residence. Express photo by Renuka Puri. 10th jan 2023

As V-P Jagdeep Dhankhar says ‘no authority above Parliament’, a look at his previous run-ins with the judiciary

April 22, 2025 5:36 pm

The very day he assumed charge as Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, in December 2022, Jagdeep Dhankhar had hit out at the apex court over its decision to scrap the NJAC.

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17 hours of lawmaking: Rajya Sabha’s rare all-night sitting echoes through Parliamentary history

April 04, 2025 10:25 pm

The Upper House commenced proceedings at 11 am on Thursday and remained in session until 4:02 am on Friday, marking a 17-hour sitting without a break.

Citing ‘lack of decorum’, Dhankhar walks out of BAC meet after standoff

March 29, 2025 4:54 am

The Budget Session of Parliament ends next week

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Justice Yashwant Varma cash row: Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar calls meeting of floor leaders

March 25, 2025 6:05 pm

The fire was reported late March 14 when Justice Yashwant Varma was not home, and fire tenders and the Delhi Police who reached the spot to douse the flames allegedly stumbled on the money.

VP Jagdeep Dhankhar to meet Nadda and Kharge over judicial accountability after cash found at Justice Yashwant Varma home.

Justice Yashwant Varma cash row: VP Jagdeep Dhankhar to meet Nadda, Kharge over judicial accountability

March 24, 2025 12:17 pm

Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar had expressed dismay at the incident of cash allegedly being found in Delhi HC judge Justice Yashwant Varma's home.

'Pleader to leader': Dhankhar says was mentored in politics by 'Tau' Devi Lal

March 05, 2025 11:17 pm

Advises students not to allow anyone to dictate their course of action and asks them not to be afraid of failure.

Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar calls for revisiting norms on CJI's role in CBI director selection.

How can CJI be involved in executive appointments, asks Vice President, says it's `time to revisit'

February 14, 2025 9:52 pm

Such a procedure is not in consonance with democracy, he said, speaking at the National Judicial Academy, Bhopal.

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Jagdeep Dhankhar sworn in as 14th Vice President of India

August 11, 2022 10:00 pm

The former West Bengal governor, who was the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) nominee for the vice-presidential post, defeated opposition‘s candidate Margaret Alva by a margin of 346 votes.