{"id":48887,"date":"2025-07-22T20:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T15:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/?p=48887"},"modified":"2025-07-25T15:24:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T09:54:06","slug":"vice-president-submits-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/22-07-2025\/vice-president-submits-resignation","title":{"rendered":"Vice-President Submits Resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS2\/ Polity and Governance<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Context<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Vice-President of India, Jagdeep Dhankhar becomes the <strong>&nbsp;third Vice-President <\/strong>in India\u2019s history to resign before completing his term, after<strong> V.V. Giri<\/strong> and<strong> R. Venkataraman <\/strong>in accordance with <strong>Article 67(a)<\/strong> of the Constitution of India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Election of Vice-President of India<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/blog\/vice-president-of-india\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/blog\/vice-president-of-india\/\"><strong>Vice-President of India<\/strong><\/a> is elected by the method of <strong>indirect election<\/strong>, with the system of <strong>proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote <\/strong>and the voting is by <strong>secret ballot (Article 66).<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Eligibility criteria:<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>He should be a citizen of India and have completed <strong>35 years<\/strong> of age<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>He should be <strong>qualified for<\/strong> election as a <strong>member of the Rajya Sabha.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>He should <strong>not hold any office of profit <\/strong>under the Union government.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Electoral college:<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It consists of <strong>both elected and nominated members<\/strong> of the Parliament.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It does <strong>not include<\/strong> the members of the <strong>state legislative assemblies.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The nomination<\/strong> of a candidate for election to the office of Vice-President must be subscribed by at least <strong>20 electors as proposers<\/strong> and <strong>20 electors as seconders.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>All doubts and disputes in connection with the election of the Vice President are inquired into and decided by the <strong>Supreme Court,<\/strong> whose decision is final <strong>(Article 71).&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Term of Office<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Vice-President holds office for a <strong>term of five years<\/strong>&nbsp; and can <strong>resign<\/strong> at any time by addressing the resignation letter to the <strong>President.<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>He is also eligible for <strong>reelection<\/strong> to that office.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Constitutional Provisions for Removal: Under Article 67(b),<\/strong> the Vice President can be removed through a resolution passed by a <strong>majority in the Rajya Sabha<\/strong> and subsequently agreed upon by the <strong>Lok Sabha.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>A 14-day notice<\/strong> is mandatory before such a resolution can be moved.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If the office falls vacant by<strong> resignation, removal, death<\/strong> or otherwise, then an election to fill the vacancy should be held <strong>as soon as possible<\/strong> after the occurrence of the vacancy.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The newly elected vice-president remains in office for a <strong>full term of five years<\/strong> from the date he assumes charge of his office.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Functions of Vice-President<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>He acts as the <strong>ex-officio Chairman of Rajya Sabha (Article 64)<\/strong>. In this capacity, his powers and functions are similar to those of the Speaker of Lok Sabha.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>He <strong>acts as President<\/strong> when a vacancy occurs in the office of the President due to his resignation, impeachment, death or otherwise <strong>(Article 65).<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>When the Vice-President acts as President, the <strong>Deputy Chairman of Rajya<\/strong> Sabha takes over the Vice-President&#8217;s duties as Rajya Sabha Chairman.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-global\/syrias-continuing-turmoil-al-sharaa-druze-israel-10141072\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>IE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Context<\/strong><\/h3>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">The Vice-President of India, Jagdeep Dhankhar becomes the \u00a0third Vice-President in India\u2019s history to resign before completing his term, after V.V. Giri and R. Venkataraman in accordance with Article 67(a) of the Constitution of India.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Term of Office<\/strong><\/h3>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">The Vice-President holds office for a term of five years\u00a0 and can resign at any time by addressing the resignation letter to the President.<\/li>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">He is also eligible for reelection to that office.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">Constitutional Provisions for Removal: Under Article 67(b), the Vice President can be removed through a resolution passed by a majority in the Rajya Sabha and subsequently agreed upon by the Lok Sabha.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">A 14-day notice is mandatory before such a resolution can be moved.<\/li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/22-07-2025\/vice-president-submits-resignation\" class=\"btn btn-primary btn-sm float-end\">Read\u00a0More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48887"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49186,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48887\/revisions\/49186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}