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Former VP Jagdeep Dhankhar applies for MLA pension in Rajasthan

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Updated on: Aug 31, 2025 08:44 AM IST

An official said the secretariat has initiated the process, and the pension will be applicable from the date his resignation as vice president was accepted.

Former vice president Jagdeep Dhankhar on Thursday applied for pension as a former legislator in Rajasthan, officials said.

Jagdeep Dhankhar quit as Vice President of India abruptly on July 21, with two years remaining in his term. The Vice President is the PU chancellor by default.(X/@VPIndia/File)

“We received the application two days ago. If elected to any ministerial, gubernatorial, or presidential post, an MLA’s pension gets suspended by the state assembly secretariat. Now, after stepping down from the vice president’s post on July 21, Dhankhar has re-applied for the pension for his previous legislative term in Rajasthan’s Kishangarh from 1993 to 1998,” a spokesperson of the Rajasthan assembly secretariat said.

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Earlier, Dhankhar, who represented the Kishangarh assembly constituency as a Congress MLA, received pension as a former legislator until July 2019. It was discontinued after he was appointed the governor of West Bengal on July 20, 2019.

 
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