India, July 23 -- Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday demanded answers on Jagdeep Dhankhar's sudden resignation as vice president, claiming there was something fishy about it.

According to the leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha, Dhankhar used to "defend" the BJP and the RSS more than the BJP-RSS people themselves, but still had to resign.

"The government must answer why he resigned, what are the reasons, what is the secret behind it. We feel that 'daal mein kuch kaala hai (there is something fishy)'. He seems healthy and always keeps a good vocabulary. But what happened? He used to defend the BJP and the RSS more than the BJP-RSS people themselves," PTI quoted him as saying.

Kharge said that the country should be to...