{"id":17313,"date":"2022-07-18T14:48:02","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T09:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/?p=17313"},"modified":"2022-07-18T14:48:02","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T09:18:02","slug":"jagdeep-dhankhar-files-nomination-for-vice-president-polls-with-pm-modi-amit-shah-by-his-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/jagdeep-dhankhar-files-nomination-for-vice-president-polls-with-pm-modi-amit-shah-by-his-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Jagdeep Dhankhar files nomination for Vice President polls with PM Modi &#038; Amit Shah by his side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former West Bengal Governor, Jagdeep Dhankhar, today filed his nomination papers as the BJP-led NDa candidate for Vice-President. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union ministers Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh and BJP President JP Nadda were with him while filing the nomination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will always strive to enhance the democratic values of the country,\u201d said Dhankhar. \u201cI never thought, even in my dreams, that a person with a humble background like me will get this opportunity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He will be fighting Opposition candidate Margaret Alva in the polls, scheduled on August 6. Margaret Alva has served as Governor of several states. She was a five-time MP and a minister in the Rajiv Gandhi government.<\/p>\n<p>The last date for filing nominations is tomorrow. The term for the current Vice President, M Venkaiah Naidu, ends on August 10. Dhankhar resigned as Bengal Governor yesterday. He was appointed Governor of West Bengal three years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former West Bengal Governor, Jagdeep Dhankhar, today filed his nomination papers as the BJP-led NDa candidate for Vice-President. Prime Minister Narendra Modi&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1236,"featured_media":16958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_seo_keywords":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[99,98,95,181,92,5693,583,5700],"class_list":["post-17313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation","tag-amit-shah","tag-governor-jagdeep-dhankhar","tag-jagdeep-dhankhar","tag-jp-nadda","tag-narendra-modi","tag-nda","tag-top-story","tag-vice-president-of-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17314,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17313\/revisions\/17314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}