The outgoing vice president, it is worth recalling, had presided over yet another stormy session of the Rajya Sabha the very day he stepped down and had called a meeting of the Business Advisory Committee (BAC) at 12:30 p.m. after adjourning the House. The meeting was attended, among others, by the leader of the House, BJP president J.P. Nadda and union minister Piyush Goyal as well as those from the Opposition.

The BAC had met to sort out the stalemate over the impeachment motion moved by Opposition MPs against Justice Yashwant Varma of the Allahabad High Court. While the Rajya Sabha chairman announced that he had received the motion and found it to be in order, the government apparently wanted the motion to be moved by itself in the Lok Sabha.

With discussions inconclusive, it was decided to convene another meeting of the BAC at 4:30 p.m. again the same day. Nobody from the government side, however, turned up for the meeting. Congress MP Jairam Ramesh later claimed that he was with the vice president till 5:30 p.m. and had spoken to him last at 7:30 p.m. — and Mr Dhankhar did not complain of any discomfort in this time.

However, after an unscheduled meeting with the President at Rashtrapati Bhavan later that evening, the VP announced his resignation due to health reasons around 9 p.m.

Since then, nobody seems to have met or spoken to the outgoing vice president.