Dhankhar undergoes second angioplasty at EHCC Hospital in Jaipur
Former Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar underwent a successful angioplasty at the EHCC Hospital here on Friday.
Former Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar underwent a successful angioplasty at the EHCC Hospital here on Friday.
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.
Dhankhar criticised the Indira Gandhi-led Congress government for changing the Preamble of the Indian Constitution during the Emergency in 1976.
The Vice president said, “50 years ago, this day, the oldest, the largest and now the most vibrant democracy went through difficult air pocket, unexpected hazard in the shape of headwinds, nothing short of earthquake to destroy democracy. It was an imposition of emergency. The night was dark, the cabinet was sidelined."
Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Monday said the now-abrogated Article 370 of the Constitution “bled India and the state of Jammu and Kashmir” for too long.
Condemning the Emergency imposed during the Indira Gandhi-led Congress government in 1975, Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar said on Saturday that it was a time when all fundamental essence of democracy capsized.
“This morning, I was reminded of something very critical for the country—not for oneself, but for the system. What the present Chief Justice said is important: we must believe in protocol,” said Dhankhar.
