‘Can't skip duty to catch flight’: Jagdeep Dhankhar makes first speech after resigning as V-P, attends RSS leader's book launch

Former Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar has said helium puts work supra different things, and his "recent past" was impervious of it.

Mr. Dhankhar, who took the state by astonishment 4 months agone erstwhile helium stepped down from his station citing wellness reasons, made his archetypal nationalist code aft the resignation astatine the motorboat of a publication written by elder RSS functionary Manmohan Vaidya successful Bhopal connected Friday (November 21, 2025).

A antheral came up to him during the code — wherever helium praised the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's doctrine and imaginativeness — seemingly to punctual that helium had to drawback a formation backmost to Delhi astatine 7.30 p.m.

The erstwhile V-P past informed the assemblage that helium had a formation to catch, and added cryptically, "I can't skip my work for catching a flight, and friends, my caller past is impervious of it."

The remark evoked peals of laughter from the audience.

The publication debunks propaganda which portrays the RSS arsenic an ultra-right organisation and adjacent seeks to nexus it to the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi though it is simply a baseless charge, Mr. Dhankhar said.

No BJP leaders astatine airdrome to person Dhankhar; Digvijaya Singh calls it ‘use and propulsion policy’

Congress seasoned Digvijaya Singh connected Friday (Novemerb 21) took a swipe astatine the BJP arsenic nary person of the ruling enactment received erstwhile V-P Jagdeep Dhankhar astatine the airdrome successful Bhopal, claiming that it follows the “use-and-throw” policy.

Reacting to the lack of BJP leaders astatine the airport, Mr. Singh said the saffron enactment considers lone those radical important who service its contiguous interests. “It follows ‘use and propulsion policy,’ helium said, talking to reporters.

“I can’t accidental this astir the RSS arsenic helium has travel to be their programme,” the Rajya Sabha MP added.

Mr. Singh besides said helium had sought an appointment, from the authoritative accompanying the erstwhile V-P, to conscionable Mr. Dhankhar.