Dhankhar meets Naidu; outgoing V-P to get farewell on Monday
By PTI
NEW DELHI: Jagdeep Dhankhar who is about to take oath as the subsequent vp this week met incumbent M Venkaiah Naidu right here on Sunday.
Dhankhar and his spouse Sudesh had been welcomed on the Upa-Rashtrapati Nivas by Naidu and his partner Usha Naidu.
The Vice President Secretariat and Dhankhar tweeted photos of the assembly.
Naidu gifted his successor an ‘ang vastram’ (stole).
Sources mentioned their assembly lasted over half-hour and later Naidu gave a tour of the residence and the secretariat to Dhankhar.
Naidu additionally launched Dhankhar to the secretariat employees.
“The Vice President-elect, Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar, and his spouse, Dr Sudesh Dhankhar, met the Vice President, Shri M Venkaiah Naidu, and his spouse, Smt Usha Naidu, at Upa-Rashtrapati Nivas today,” the Vice President Secretariat tweeted.
Naidu congratulated Dhankhar on his election because the 14th Vice President and conveyed his greatest needs for a profitable tenure, it added.
Naidu’s time period ends on August 10 and Dhankhar will take oath a day after.
The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance candidate Dhankhar gained with an enormous vote share of 74.36 per cent, the best within the final six vice presidential elections, bagging 528 votes towards joint Opposition choose Margaret Alva’s 182 votes.
Earlier within the day, the governors of Assam and Rajasthan known as on Dhankhar right here.
Dhankhar tweeted about his conferences with Assam Governor Jagdish Mukhi and Rajasthan Governor Kalraj Mishra.
BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra and the get together’s nationwide secretary Sunil Deodhar additionally known as on the vice president-elect.
Naidu will probably be accorded a farewell within the House on Monday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and different prime leaders in attendance.
Naidu demits workplace on Wednesday and his successor Jagdeep Dhankhar will take the oath of workplace on August 11.
There will probably be no sitting of the House on Tuesday and Thursday on account of Muharram and Raksha Bandhan, sources mentioned.
They added that there will probably be one other farewell operate for Naidu on the GMC Balayogi Auditorium on Monday night on behalf of all of the members of the House.
The prime minister will current a memento to Naidu whereas the deputy chairman of Rajya Sabha will ship the farewell handle, they mentioned.
A publication chronicling the tenure of Naidu because the vp and chairman of Rajya Sabha will probably be launched by the prime minister.
This will probably be adopted by dinner.
NEW DELHI: Jagdeep Dhankhar who is about to take oath as the subsequent vp this week met incumbent M Venkaiah Naidu right here on Sunday.
Dhankhar and his spouse Sudesh had been welcomed on the Upa-Rashtrapati Nivas by Naidu and his partner Usha Naidu.
The Vice President Secretariat and Dhankhar tweeted photos of the assembly.
Naidu gifted his successor an ‘ang vastram’ (stole).
Sources mentioned their assembly lasted over half-hour and later Naidu gave a tour of the residence and the secretariat to Dhankhar.
Naidu additionally launched Dhankhar to the secretariat employees.
“The Vice President-elect, Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar, and his spouse, Dr Sudesh Dhankhar, met the Vice President, Shri M Venkaiah Naidu, and his spouse, Smt Usha Naidu, at Upa-Rashtrapati Nivas today,” the Vice President Secretariat tweeted.
Naidu congratulated Dhankhar on his election because the 14th Vice President and conveyed his greatest needs for a profitable tenure, it added.
Naidu’s time period ends on August 10 and Dhankhar will take oath a day after.
The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance candidate Dhankhar gained with an enormous vote share of 74.36 per cent, the best within the final six vice presidential elections, bagging 528 votes towards joint Opposition choose Margaret Alva’s 182 votes.
Earlier within the day, the governors of Assam and Rajasthan known as on Dhankhar right here.
Dhankhar tweeted about his conferences with Assam Governor Jagdish Mukhi and Rajasthan Governor Kalraj Mishra.
BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra and the get together’s nationwide secretary Sunil Deodhar additionally known as on the vice president-elect.
Naidu will probably be accorded a farewell within the House on Monday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and different prime leaders in attendance.
Naidu demits workplace on Wednesday and his successor Jagdeep Dhankhar will take the oath of workplace on August 11.
There will probably be no sitting of the House on Tuesday and Thursday on account of Muharram and Raksha Bandhan, sources mentioned.
They added that there will probably be one other farewell operate for Naidu on the GMC Balayogi Auditorium on Monday night on behalf of all of the members of the House.
The prime minister will current a memento to Naidu whereas the deputy chairman of Rajya Sabha will ship the farewell handle, they mentioned.
A publication chronicling the tenure of Naidu because the vp and chairman of Rajya Sabha will probably be launched by the prime minister.
This will probably be adopted by dinner.
