Via PTI
NEW DELHI: Aggravating arrangements have been underway on the Congress headquarters for Wednesday’s rite the place birthday party president Sonia Gandhi will quit the baton to her successor, Mallikarjun Kharge, the primary non-Gandhi to move the outfit in 24 years.
Kharge defeated Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor in an immediate contest for the highest put up within the grand outdated birthday party after the Gandhis opted out of the race. Safety group of workers and employees made last-minute preparations at the AICC headquarters lawns the place a tent was once being publish and within the Congress president’s place of business room.
Chairman of the central election authority of the Congress Madhusudan Mistry will officially quit the election certificates to Kharge on the serve as, which will even see the presence of outgoing leader Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.
Kharge, 80, takes rate of the birthday party at a time when it faces a tricky problem from an impressive BJP led via Top Minister Narendra Modi which has ousted the Congress from many states.
For Kharge, who has served as a pacesetter of the opposition within the Karnataka Meeting, chief of Congress in Lok Sabha and later chief of the opposition in Rajya Sabha, the present task comes at a time when the birthday party is at a historical low, electorally.
With the Congress now ultimate in energy in simplest two states – Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh – by itself and in partnership as a junior spouse in Jharkhand, Kharge’s first problem is to convey the birthday party to energy in Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat, which cross to polls in the following few weeks.
Meeting elections in Himachal Pradesh are on November 12 however the dates for Gujarat are but to be introduced.
Later in 2023, Kharge will face the arduous job of main the Congress in 9 meeting elections which might be due together with in his house state of Karnataka the place he was once an MLA for 9 phrases.
Kharge’s election additionally comes at a time the birthday party is reeling underneath inside rumblings and high-profile exits after a chain of electoral debacles and has been lowered 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The outdated warhorse is widely known for now not shedding an election barring the 2019 Lok Sabha ballot from Gulbarga.
It was once after that loss that Sonia Gandhi introduced Kharge to the 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, enforcing radical reforms the birthday party pledged on the mid-Would possibly Chintan Shivir in Udaipur and keeping up his independence within the face of insinuations that he’s a candidate of the Gandhi and would search their approval in all choices.
The final non-Gandhi Congress president was once Sitaram Kesri, who was once 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 in addition the second one Dalit chief after Jagjivan Ram to carry the put up.
NEW DELHI: Aggravating arrangements have been underway on the Congress headquarters for Wednesday’s rite the place birthday party president Sonia Gandhi will quit the baton to her successor, Mallikarjun Kharge, the primary non-Gandhi to move the outfit in 24 years.
Kharge defeated Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor in an immediate contest for the highest put up within the grand outdated birthday party after the Gandhis opted out of the race. Safety group of workers and employees made last-minute preparations at the AICC headquarters lawns the place a tent was once being publish and within the Congress president’s place of business room.
Chairman of the central election authority of the Congress Madhusudan Mistry will officially quit the election certificates to Kharge on the serve as, which will even see the presence of outgoing leader Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.
Kharge, 80, takes rate of the birthday party at a time when it faces a tricky problem from an impressive BJP led via Top Minister Narendra Modi which has ousted the Congress from many states.
For Kharge, who has served as a pacesetter of the opposition within the Karnataka Meeting, chief of Congress in Lok Sabha and later chief of the opposition in Rajya Sabha, the present task comes at a time when the birthday party is at a historical low, electorally.
With the Congress now ultimate in energy in simplest two states – Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh – by itself and in partnership as a junior spouse in Jharkhand, Kharge’s first problem is to convey the birthday party to energy in Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat, which cross to polls in the following few weeks.
Meeting elections in Himachal Pradesh are on November 12 however the dates for Gujarat are but to be introduced.
Later in 2023, Kharge will face the arduous job of main the Congress in 9 meeting elections which might be due together with in his house state of Karnataka the place he was once an MLA for 9 phrases.
Kharge’s election additionally comes at a time the birthday party is reeling underneath inside rumblings and high-profile exits after a chain of electoral debacles and has been lowered 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 widely known for now not shedding an election barring the 2019 Lok Sabha ballot from Gulbarga.
It was once after that loss that Sonia Gandhi introduced Kharge to the 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, enforcing radical reforms the birthday party pledged on the mid-Would possibly Chintan Shivir in Udaipur and keeping up his independence within the face of insinuations that he’s a candidate of the Gandhi and would search their approval in all choices.
The final non-Gandhi Congress president was once Sitaram Kesri, who was once 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 in addition the second one Dalit chief after Jagjivan Ram to carry the put up.