(Bloomberg) — India Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Celebration named Jagdeep Dhankhar, governor of West Bengal state, as its Vice Presidential candidate.
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Dhankhar, who’s 71, was elected as a lawmaker in 1988 from a constituency in Rajasthan, additionally his dwelling state, in accordance with info out there on West Bengal Raj Bhavan web site.
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, who was till just lately the one Muslim face in Modi’s cupboard, was reported to be amongst doable candidates for the Vice President’s position.
Election for the place are due Aug. 6. The opposition events haven’t but named a candidate.
The nation’s vp takes over within the occasion of the dying, resignation or elimination of the president and can also be chairman of the higher home of parliament, or Rajya Sabha. The president is the supreme commander of India’s armed forces and oversees creation of a authorities in case of a hung parliament.
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