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Jagdeep Dhankar’s resignation is more than a crisis — it’s a symptom

India VP's departure exposes how constitutional roles are reduced to loyalty tests

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Swati Chaturvedi, Special to Gulf News
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No one in the full spectrum of the media had any clue that Jagdeep Dhankhar would step down as Vice-President of India.
No one in the full spectrum of the media had any clue that Jagdeep Dhankhar would step down as Vice-President of India.
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First, the truth: hindsight is 20/20. All those media pundits and omniscient experts now bloviating — talking in an inflated way — about the whys and wherefores of the resignation of India’s Vice-President, Jagdeep Dhankar, are blowing hot air.

No one in the full spectrum of the media, including the servile lot ruling the roost, had any clue. All that you are getting now — the “building-up confrontation,” “the clock was ticking,” and his many transgressions — are afterthoughts, meant to besmirch his reputation and save the government’s face over the first-ever resignation of a Vice-President of India midway through his term.

Swati Chaturvedi
Swati ChaturvediSpecial to Gulf News
Swati Chaturvedi is an award-winning journalist and author of ‘I Am a Troll: Inside the Secret World of the BJP’s Digital Army’.
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