| Jagdeep Dhankhar is a former BJP politician and lawyer. |
| He served as the 28th Governor of West Bengal. |
| In July 2022, he was chosen as a Vice-President electoral candidate by the National Democratic Alliance (NDA). |
| In August 2022, he assumed the office of the Vice President of India. |
| After completing his B.Sc LLB in 1979, he started practicing law as an advocate in Rajasthan. |
| On 10 November 1979, he was enrolled as an advocate in the Bar Council of Rajasthan. |
| In 1987, he became the President of the Rajasthan High Court Bar Association, making him the youngest President of the Bar association of Rajasthan. |
| In 1988, he joined the Janata Dal (JD) to begin his political career. |
| He contested the 9th Lok Sabha elections in the same year from the Janata Dal and was elected as a member of parliament from Rajasthan's Jhunjhunu district. |
| He was an MP till the end of 1991. |
| He was appointed as a senior advocate in the Rajasthan High Court on 27 March 1990 and held the post till 2019. |
| He served as a Union Deputy Minister of Parliamentary Affairs from 21 April 1990 to the end of 1990. |
| From January to May 1990, he chaired parliamentary committees focusing on various matters. |
| He started practicing law in the Supreme Court in 1990, specializing in Steel, Coal, Mine, and International Commercial Arbitration cases across India. |
| In 1991, he resigned as a Member of Parliament and joined the Indian National Congress. |
| In 1993, he became an MLA from the Kishangarh constituency in Rajasthan till 1998. |
| He joined the BJP in 2003 and was a member of the BJP’s assembly election campaign committee in 2008. |
| In 2015, he supported the OBC status agitation for the Jat community of Rajasthan. |
| He became the national convener of the BJP’s law and legal affairs department in 2016. |
| He was appointed as the Governor of West Bengal on 20 July 2019. |
| He was made the chairman of the Eastern Zonal Cultural Centre (EZCC) in 2019. |
| In July 2022, he expressed concerns about governance, constitutional violations, communal patronage, and extortion mafias in a media conclave. |
| He was chosen as the Vice-Presidential candidate by the National Democratic Alliance on 18 July 2022. |
| He took oath as the 14th Vice-President of India on 11 August 2022. |
| Aside from politics, he enjoys traveling with his family to various countries. |
| He once mentioned in an interview that he traveled 5 to 6 kilometers daily when he was in 6th grade. |
| He has been involved in social service activities with the Indian Red Cross Society (IRCS). |
| As the president of the Rajasthan Olympic Association and the Rajasthan Tennis Association, he has contributed to the promotion of sports in Rajasthan. |
| After his Vice-Presidential nomination, the BJP has referred to Jagdeep Dhankhar as 'Kisan Putra' (son of a farmer). |
