Dhankhar launches ‘The Unbecoming Identity’
However, keeping the grace and decorum of the high constitutional office he had held, Dhankhar did not speak.
However, keeping the grace and decorum of the high constitutional office he had held, Dhankhar did not speak.
The former Vice President visited the hospital today for a checkup, and the doctors insisted he should be admitted.
Delivering the keynote address at the launch of senior RSS leader Dr Manmohan Vaidya’s book Hum Aur Yeh Vishwa, he said, “I cannot skip my duty for catching the flight, friends. My recent past is proof of it,” when a man approached him during the event to remind him of his return flight to Delhi.
Dhankhar, wearing a navy blue 'bandhgala' suit, sat in the front row as Radhakrishnan took oath as the 15th Vice President of India.
Congress leader Jairam Ramesh has expressed concern over the prolonged and unusual silence of former Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, who resigned from his post 50 days ago.
The Vice-President also stressed that change of government is an inherent part of democracy.
“The riverfront will be the best in the world, and I have no doubt that once fully developed, it will become a centre of global attraction," Dhankhar said.
Gupta also shared several new initiatives undertaken to enhance the functioning of the Assembly and presented a special booklet titled “100 Days of the 8th Delhi Legislative Assembly – Marching Ahead with Legacy and Development” to the Vice President.
Stating that, historically, no country's preamble has ever been changed , the vice president said that the Preamble of the Indian Constitution was altered during the Emergency era when hundreds and thousands of people were behind bars
Dhankhar criticised the Indira Gandhi-led Congress government for changing the Preamble of the Indian Constitution during the Emergency in 1976.
