NEW DELHI: The primary day of Parliament Winter Session 2025 witnessed a Mallikarjun Kharge vs JP Nadda Showdown within the Rajya Sabha over the chief of opposition’s reference to “sudden exit” of former Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar.The sharpest second got here when chief of the Home JP Nadda suggested Kharge to “go to a health care provider” to take care of his political frustrations, insisting the Home keep targeted on the agenda at hand.
The chief of opposition within the Higher Home, throughout his welcome handle to the Rajya Sabha chairman CP Radhakrishnan, introduced up his predecessor’s “fully sudden and sudden exit from the workplace of the Chairman, Rajya Sabha.”“I hope you’ll not thoughts that I’m constrained to consult with your predecessor’s fully sudden and sudden exit from the workplace of the Chairman, Rajya Sabha,” he mentioned amid opposition from the BJP members.“The chairman, being custodian of your entire home, belongs as a lot to the opposition as to the federal government. I used to be disheartened that the home didn’t get a possibility to bid him a farewell. Regardless, want him, on behalf of your entire opposition, a really wholesome life,” Kharge mentioned.The assertion didn’t go down effectively with the chief of home JP Nadda who known as the remarks “irrelevant”.“We should preserve the dignity of the felicitation program, and it will be good if we talk about it accordingly. If we begin discussing the problem that our Chief of the Opposition introduced up at this time, the farewell, and all the opposite matters, I feel it is irrelevant,” he mentioned.“There may even be discussions from right here that you simply moved a no-confidence movement towards him, not as soon as however twice…I suppose our Chief of the Opposition could be very respectable. The defeat in Bihar, Haryana, and Maharashtra has precipitated you appreciable ache. However you need to specific your ache and struggling to a health care provider. It is best to communicate to a health care provider when the time comes,” he added.Earlier this 12 months, Dhankhar’s abrupt resignation as Vice President, formally citing well being causes with two years nonetheless left in his time period, had triggered a flurry of hypothesis and conspiracy theories throughout political circles. His determination, introduced on the very first day of Parliament’s Monsoon Session, was extremely uncommon—making him solely the third Vice President after VV Giri and R Venkataraman to step down earlier than finishing a full tenure.