Via PTI
NEW DELHI: Senior Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge has resigned because the Chief of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, resources stated on Saturday, an afternoon after he filed his nomination papers for the AICC president’s election.
Kharge’s resignation, which the 80-year-old chief despatched to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, is in keeping with the birthday celebration’s declared ‘One particular person, One put up’ idea that used to be introduced on the Udaipur ‘Chintan Shivir’ in Would possibly.
The resignation letter used to be despatched by way of Kharge ultimate evening, the resources stated.
Senior leaders P Chidambaram and Digvijaya Singh are learnt to be the front-runners to take at the mantle of Chief of Opposition in Rajya Sabha.
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The degree used to be set on Friday for a competition between Kharge and Shashi Tharoor for the Congress president’s put up. Kharge, a Dalit chief from Karnataka has emerged because the transparent favorite.
The 3rd candidate within the fray, Ok N Tripathi, a former Jharkhand minister, is regarded as a light-weight for the competition.
Kharge, Tharoor and Tripathi filed nominations at the ultimate day of the method which noticed the AICC headquarters come again to lifestyles after a very long time, with employees swarming the advanced.
Kharge, flanked by way of best Congress leaders, has filed 14 units of nomination papers with the proposers together with Ashok Gehlot, Digvijaya Singh, A Ok Antony, Ambika Soni, Mukul Wasnik and participants from the G-23 ginger staff comprising Anand Sharma, Bhupinder Hooda, Prithviraj Chavan and Manish Tewari.
NEW DELHI: Senior Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge has resigned because the Chief of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, resources stated on Saturday, an afternoon after he filed his nomination papers for the AICC president’s election.
Kharge’s resignation, which the 80-year-old chief despatched to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, is in keeping with the birthday celebration’s declared ‘One particular person, One put up’ idea that used to be introduced on the Udaipur ‘Chintan Shivir’ in Would possibly.
The resignation letter used to be despatched by way of Kharge ultimate evening, the resources stated.
Senior leaders P Chidambaram and Digvijaya Singh are learnt to be the front-runners to take at the mantle of Chief of Opposition in Rajya Sabha.
ALSO READ | Congress President ballot: Mallikarjun Kharge set to win with backing of birthday celebration large weapons
The degree used to be set on Friday for a competition between Kharge and Shashi Tharoor for the Congress president’s put up. Kharge, a Dalit chief from Karnataka has emerged because the transparent favorite.
The 3rd candidate within the fray, Ok N Tripathi, a former Jharkhand minister, is regarded as a light-weight for the competition.
Kharge, Tharoor and Tripathi filed nominations at the ultimate day of the method which noticed the AICC headquarters come again to lifestyles after a very long time, with employees swarming the advanced.
Kharge, flanked by way of best Congress leaders, has filed 14 units of nomination papers with the proposers together with Ashok Gehlot, Digvijaya Singh, A Ok Antony, Ambika Soni, Mukul Wasnik and participants from the G-23 ginger staff comprising Anand Sharma, Bhupinder Hooda, Prithviraj Chavan and Manish Tewari.