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Officers working with ex-VP sent to parent cadre
Hindustan Times Delhi
|July 25, 2025
Three days after Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar resigned, his secretariat was closed down anda large number of government officers working with him repatriated to their parent cadre, two officials told HT on Thursday. But no room in the Vice Presidential enclave has been sealed off, they added.

At the enclave, “hardly a few government officers are remaining and they too are waiting for the orders to go back to their parent cadre,” said an officia.
The newly constructed VP enclave has a separate wing for its secretariat. One by one, the officers have left and it has been locked. “The keys were handed over to the two undersecretaries,” said a second official.
This story is from the July 25, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Delhi.
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