Targeting the RS chairperson

The move against the vice president is the fallout of a breakdown in communication between the treasury and Opposition benches

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The unprecedented move by the INDIA bloc to oust the vice president (VP) and Rajya Sabha chairman, Jagdeep Dhankhar, on charges of being partisan, will likely fail because its motion will fall well short of the required 50% (116 votes) to do so (it has only 86), but the real story is not the numbers but the message in the move. And this is a message of distrust between the treasury and Opposition benches (across Parliament and not just the upper House), and the increased scrutiny and criticism constitutional posts (including the governors of states) have come under in an environment characterised by extreme polarisation.