By way of PTI
NEW DELHI: Veteran chief Mallikarjun Kharge will officially take over as Congress president on Wednesday after he’s passed over the certificates of election at a serve as right here.
Demanding arrangements had been underway on the Congress headquarters on Tuesday for the rite the place outgoing president Sonia Gandhi will give up the reins to Kharge, the primary non-Gandhi to go the birthday celebration in 24 years.
Kharge defeated Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor in an instantaneous contest for the highest submit within the grand outdated birthday celebration after the Gandhis opted out of the race.
Forward of his taking up, Kharge known as on former top minister Manmohan Singh at his place of abode and spent a while with him.
On Wednesday morning, Kharge pays homage to Mahatma Gandhi at Rajghat and likewise consult with memorials of former top ministers Jawaharlal Nehru, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi, but even so former deputy top minister Jagjivan Ram.
In the meantime, safety staff and staff made last-minute preparations within the Congress president’s workplace and at the AICC headquarters lawns the place a tent used to be being post.
Chairman of the central election authority of the Congress Madhusudan Mistry will officially give up the election certificates to Kharge at Wednesday’s serve as, which will even see the presence of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.
Kharge, 80, takes price of the birthday celebration at a time when it faces a difficult problem from an impressive BJP led by means of Top Minister Narendra Modi which has ousted the Congress from many states.
For Kharge, who has served as a pace-setter of the opposition within the Karnataka Meeting, chief of Congress in Lok Sabha and chief of the opposition in Rajya Sabha, the present project comes at a time when the birthday celebration is at a ancient low, electorally.
With the Congress now ultimate in energy in handiest two states — Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh — by itself and as a junior spouse in Jharkhand, Kharge’s first problem is to convey the birthday celebration to energy in Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat, which cross to polls in the following couple of weeks.
Meeting elections in Himachal Pradesh might be hung on November 12.
The dates for the Gujarat polls are but to be introduced.
In 2023, Kharge will face the exhausting activity of main the Congress in 9 meeting elections, together with in his house state of Karnataka the place he used to be an MLA for 9 phrases.
Kharge’s election additionally comes at a time the birthday celebration is reeling below inside rumblings and high-profile exits after a sequence of electoral debacles and has been decreased to a shadow of its former ambitious self.
Starting his occupation as leader of the Gulbarga town council, Kharge has additionally served as a state minister and a Lok Sabha MP from Gulbarga (2009 and 2014).
The outdated warhorse is well known for now not dropping an election barring the 2019 Lok Sabha ballot from Gulbarga.
It used to be after that loss that Sonia Gandhi introduced Kharge to Rajya Sabha and in February 2021 made him the chief of the opposition.
Kharge additionally faces the problem of restoring the Congress’ primacy within the opposition house, imposing radical reforms the birthday celebration pledged on the mid-Might ‘Chintan Shivir’ in Udaipur and keeping up his independence within the face of insinuations that he’s a candidate of the Gandhis and would search their approval in all selections.
The final non-Gandhi Congress president used to be Sitaram Kesri, who used to be unceremoniously got rid of in 1998 simply after two years into his five-year time period.
A pacesetter with greater than 50 years of enjoy in politics, Kharge could also be the second one All India Congress Committee (AICC) president from Karnataka after S Nijalingappa and likewise the second one Dalit chief after Jagjivan Ram to carry the submit.
NEW DELHI: Veteran chief Mallikarjun Kharge will officially take over as Congress president on Wednesday after he’s passed over the certificates of election at a serve as right here.
Demanding arrangements had been underway on the Congress headquarters on Tuesday for the rite the place outgoing president Sonia Gandhi will give up the reins to Kharge, the primary non-Gandhi to go the birthday celebration in 24 years.
Kharge defeated Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor in an instantaneous contest for the highest submit within the grand outdated birthday celebration after the Gandhis opted out of the race.
Forward of his taking up, Kharge known as on former top minister Manmohan Singh at his place of abode and spent a while with him.
On Wednesday morning, Kharge pays homage to Mahatma Gandhi at Rajghat and likewise consult with memorials of former top ministers Jawaharlal Nehru, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi, but even so former deputy top minister Jagjivan Ram.
In the meantime, safety staff and staff made last-minute preparations within the Congress president’s workplace and at the AICC headquarters lawns the place a tent used to be being post.
Chairman of the central election authority of the Congress Madhusudan Mistry will officially give up the election certificates to Kharge at Wednesday’s serve as, which will even see the presence of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.
Kharge, 80, takes price of the birthday celebration at a time when it faces a difficult problem from an impressive BJP led by means of Top Minister Narendra Modi which has ousted the Congress from many states.
For Kharge, who has served as a pace-setter of the opposition within the Karnataka Meeting, chief of Congress in Lok Sabha and chief of the opposition in Rajya Sabha, the present project comes at a time when the birthday celebration is at a ancient low, electorally.
With the Congress now ultimate in energy in handiest two states — Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh — by itself and as a junior spouse in Jharkhand, Kharge’s first problem is to convey the birthday celebration to energy in Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat, which cross to polls in the following couple of weeks.
Meeting elections in Himachal Pradesh might be hung on November 12.
The dates for the Gujarat polls are but to be introduced.
In 2023, Kharge will face the exhausting activity of main the Congress in 9 meeting elections, together with in his house state of Karnataka the place he used to be an MLA for 9 phrases.
Kharge’s election additionally comes at a time the birthday celebration is reeling below inside rumblings and high-profile exits after a sequence of electoral debacles and has been decreased to a shadow of its former ambitious self.
Starting his occupation as leader of the Gulbarga town council, Kharge has additionally served as a state minister and a Lok Sabha MP from Gulbarga (2009 and 2014).
The outdated warhorse is well known for now not dropping an election barring the 2019 Lok Sabha ballot from Gulbarga.
It used to be after that loss that Sonia Gandhi introduced Kharge to Rajya Sabha and in February 2021 made him the chief of the opposition.
Kharge additionally faces the problem of restoring the Congress’ primacy within the opposition house, imposing radical reforms the birthday celebration pledged on the mid-Might ‘Chintan Shivir’ in Udaipur and keeping up his independence within the face of insinuations that he’s a candidate of the Gandhis and would search their approval in all selections.
The final non-Gandhi Congress president used to be Sitaram Kesri, who used to be unceremoniously got rid of in 1998 simply after two years into his five-year time period.
A pacesetter with greater than 50 years of enjoy in politics, Kharge could also be the second one All India Congress Committee (AICC) president from Karnataka after S Nijalingappa and likewise the second one Dalit chief after Jagjivan Ram to carry the submit.