Interacting with a group of Indian Information Service (IIS) probationers at Upa-Rashtrapati Nivas today, the Vice President said, "We no longer have the luxury of delayed response."
The comments by Birla came after a Parliamentary Delegation led by the Speaker of the National Assembly of Bhutan, Wangchuk Namgyel on Monday met Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla at Parliament House Complex.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Monday attended a prayer meeting organised on Mahatma Gandhi's death anniversary at Gandhi Smriti in New Delhi.
Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday called upon the youth to practise and follow Fundamental Duties in the Constitution while exercising their Fundamental Rights, said a press release by Vice President's Secretariat.
Asserting that India is the 'Mother of Democracy', Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Wednesday said that the power of the Parliament to amend the Constitution is not subject to any other authority, but the "life-line" the democracy.
Fifty years ago, the day marked the largest military surrender after the Second World War, as 93,000 soldiers of the Pakistan Army laid down their arms before the Indian forces -- resulting in the liberation of Bangladesh, formerly East Pakistan.
Rajya Sabha MP Shaktisinh Gohil has written to Vice President and the chairman of the Upper House, Jagdeep Dhankhar, underlining the lack of 'precaution' in the ongoing construction of the new Parliament building as part of the Central Vista project.
Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar who is also Chairman of the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday spoke on the 99th Constitutional Amendment Bill paving way for the National Judicial Appointment Commission (NJAC) which was undone by the Supreme Court in 2015.