Guwahati: Jagdeep Dhankhar will run for vice president on behalf of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), announced Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief on Saturday.
The West Bengal Governor would run for vice president on the NDA’s behalf, according to Jagat Prakash Nadda, the national president of the BJP.
It should be noted that the BJP parliamentary board convened to select the vice-presidential nominee for the organisation.
Among those in the running were West Bengal’s Jagdeep Dhankhar and Kerala’s Arif Mohammed Khan, apart from former Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi.
However, Dhankhar is said to have become the front-runner.
Jagdeep Dhankhar, a former BJP leader who now works as a lawyer for the Supreme Court of India, served in the Lok Sabha from 1989 to 1991. He is the governor of West Bengal at the moment.