With Dhankhar as VP Pick, BJP Eyes Rajasthan Jats & a Bid to Woo Angered UP, Haryana Farmers Post Agri Laws

Bharatiya Janata Party’s parliamentary board on Saturday nominated West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar as its vice presidential candidate.

By making Dhankhar, a Jat, and a learned lawmaker, its candidate for the VP, the BJP has attempted to trigger the deep fissures within the opposition parties that claimed themselves to be representing the Jat community in various states, predominantly in Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Rajasthan,…