Opposition parties on Tuesday submitted a notice to move a motion for removing Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar, who is also the Vice President, for allegedly conducting the House in a partisan manner. Congress leaders Jairam Ramesh and Naseer Hussain submitted the notice to Rajya Sabha Secretary General P C Mody. The vice president is the ex-officio chairman of Rajya Sabha.

The sources said about 60 opposition MPs—including from the Congress, RJD, TMC, CPI, CPI-M, JMM, AAP, DMK—have signed the notice. The minimum required numbers for moving a motion to remove the vice president is 50. However, they said top Congress leaders who hold Constitutional posts have not signed the notice. Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and the floor leaders of various opposition parties are also not among the signatories, the sources said.