Former Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Monday vacated his official residence and moved to his private farm house in South Delhi’s Chhatarpur, news agency PTI reported.
The farmhouse is located in the Gadaipur area of Chhatarpur. As per reports, it belongs to INLD leader Abhay Chautala.
#WATCH | Delhi: Former Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar has vacated his official residence: Sources
— ANI (@ANI) September 1, 2025
(Outside visuals from Vice President's Enclave) pic.twitter.com/ZQ7qOgLXBV
Dhankhar will stay there as a temporary arrangement until he is allotted a type VIII residence to which he is entitled as former vice president, an official said.
Jagdeep Dhankhar resigned on the first day of the monsoon session of Parliament on July 21, stating that he wanted “to prioritise health care and abide by medical advice.” At the time, he was serving as the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha and had submitted his resignation letter to President Droupadi Murmu.
Earlier, Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi also criticised the centre, questioning Dhankhar’s whereabouts and accusing the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of taking the country back to “medieval times.”
“We are going back to medieval times when the king could just remove anybody at will. There’s no concept of what an elected person is. He doesn’t like your face, so he tells ED to put a case, and then a democratically elected person is wiped out within 30 days. Also, let’s not forget why we are electing a new Vice President. Just yesterday I was having a conversation with somebody and I said, you know, where is the old vice president gone? He’s gone,” Gandhi said in a press conference on August 20.
Supreme Court advocate and senior leader Kapil Sibal also raised the question of whether a habeas corpus petition should be filed given Dhankhar’s absence from public view.
However, the BJP has maintained that Dhankhar resigned due to health reasons and dismissed suggestions of any differences with him.
