Opposition submits notice for moving no-confidence motion against Vice President Dhankhar

Opposition parties submit notice to remove Vice President Dhankhar for partisan conduct in Rajya Sabha.

Opposition parties on Tuesday (December 10, 2024) submitted a notice to move a motion for removing Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar for allegedly conducting the House in a partisan manner.

Congress leaders Jairam Ramesh and Naseer Hussain submitted the notice to Rajya Sabha Secretary General P.C. Mody.

The vice president is the ex-officio chairman of Rajya Sabha.

The sources said about 60 opposition MPs -- including from the Congress, RJD, TMC, CPI, CPI-M, JMM, AAP, DMK -- have signed the notice.

However, they said top Congress leaders who hold Constitutional posts have not signed the notice.

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and the floor leaders of various opposition parties are also not among the signatories, the sources said.

The notice, spearheaded by the Congress, comes in the wake of turbulent ties between opposition parties and the Rajya Sabha chairman.