Gurugram: Former Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar has moved out of his official bungalow at Vice-President’s Enclave in Church Highway and moved right into a farmhouse in south Delhi, owned by INLD chief Abhay Singh Chautala.

Since he unexpectedly relinquished his constitutional place six weeks in the past for “well being causes”, Dhankar has stayed out of the general public eye.

Resignation throughout monsoon session

Dhankhar’s transfer follows his sudden resignation on 21 July—the primary day of Parliament’s monsoon session. Former vp wrote to President Droupadi Murmu citing well being causes and used Article 67(a) of the Structure to resign from workplace with fast impact.

The timing of his resignation shook the political sphere, as Dhankhar had given no earlier indication of eager to stop. His resignation made him solely the third vp in India’s historical past to have resigned mid-term.

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Lengthy-standing political connections

The connection between Dhankhar and the Chautala clan goes again a good distance, woven over years of political bonding.

Chautala mentioned their bond originated through the political forays into Rajasthan by Chaudhary Devi Lal, grandfather of Abhay Chautala.

“He (Dhankhar) was near Chaudhary Devi Lal from his scholar life,” Abhay Chautala mentioned. The turning level was in 1989 when Dhankhar, who was then a pleader (lawyer), had a gathering with Devi Lal in Rajasthan when the latter was planning to contest the Lok Sabha election from Sikar in opposition to the then Speaker Balram Jakhar.

“When my grandfather requested him what he was as much as nowadays, he replied that he was a pleader. Chaudhary Devi Lal suggested him to take away the ‘p’ from his line of labor and he would make him a pacesetter. That’s how Dhankhar-ji fought his first election in 1989,” Chautala reminisced, emphasising the wordplay that transformed “pleader” to “chief”.

Tribute to Om Prakash Chautala

Dhankhar’s affiliation with the Chautala household was in proof when the final rites of Om Prakash Chautala had been held in December 2024. The ex-vice president had attended the state funeral of the five-time Haryana chief minister at Teja Khera village in Sirsa district, the place he paid transferring tributes to the political doyen, who had handed away on the age of 89.

Previous to this in March 2025, Dhankhar had laid the muse stone of Om Prakash Chautala’s museum at JCD Vidyapeeth, which is an academic establishment owned by the Chautala household, additional establishing the long-standing mutual relationship between the households.

Election for the brand new V-P

With Dhankhar’s resignation, the nation is now headed for the train of electing a brand new vp, scheduled to be held on 9 September. The Vice President of India is chosen by each homes of Parliament through an electoral faculty. As per the foundations, the previous occupiers of workplace should vacate official homes inside an affordable time period in order that it may be readied for the brand new resident. Therefore, Dhankhar’s shift to the south Delhi farmhouse is an inevitable transition.

Dhankhar, who had been the 14th Vice President of India since August 2022, was Governor of West Bengal previous to his promotion to India’s second-highest constitutional place. Just lately, Dhankhar utilized to renew his pension as a former MLA, which had been paused throughout his greater workplace.

(Edited by Viny Mishra)

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