New Delhi, July 20 -- Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Sunday called for bonhomie and mutual respect among political parties, as per a release from the Vice President's Secretariat.

Vice President Dhankar stated, "I appeal to everyone in the political spectrum -- please have mutual respect. Please don't trade unbecoming language on television or otherwise against the leadership of one party or the other. This culture is not our civilizational essence. We have to be careful with our language...Avoid personal attacks. I appeal to politicians. Time for us to stop calling politicians names. It does no good to our culture when, in various political parties, people take on senior people of other political parties and call them names."

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