“Now in a truly unprecedented move, Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar has resigned. He has given health reasons for doing so. Those should be respected. But it is also a fact that there are far deeper reasons for his resignation,” Ramesh claimed.While always lauding the post-2014 India, he spoke fearlessly for the welfare of farmers, forcefully against what he called “ahankar (arrogance)” in public life, and strongly on judicial accountability and restraint, Ramesh said.”To the extent possible under the current G2 ruling regime, he tried to accommodate the Opposition. He was a stickler for norms, proprieties, and protocol, which he believed were being consistently disregarded in both his capacities,” he said.”Jagdeep Dhankar’s resignation speaks highly of him. It also speaks poorly of those who had got him elected as Vice President in the first instance,” Ramesh added.Congress leader and former Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot said only a person working under pressure can give such a “shocking resignation.””There is no doubt that this incident is shocking for the whole country,” Gehlot said.He claimed that though Dhankhar cited health concerns for his resignation, people are finding it hard to believe. “The prime minister is going on a foreign tour and the vice president suddenly resigns, it becomes a topic of discussion in the whole country and the world,” he said, noting that Dhankhar had been raising issues of farmers.”Ten days ago, I said in Jodhpur that both the Rajya Sabha chairman and the Lok Sabha speaker are from Rajasthan and both are working under pressure. The truth has come out,” Gehlot said.
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