Tag: Mallikarjun Kharge

Kharge will be taking his charge at 10.30 a.m. at the AICC headquarters.

What New Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge Said After Winning

While Kharge garnered 7897 votes, his contender Shashi Tharoor got about 1000 votes and 416 votes got rejected.

Special arrangements have been made in party’s headquarters in Bhubaneswar, as Congress is all set to enter into an electoral contest today (Oct 17) to elect its first non-Gandhi president after 24 years.

The voting would take place at the AICC headquarters in Delhi and at 67 polling booths across the country in an electoral contest that is taking place for the sixth time in the party's 137-year history.

Senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha member Mallikarjun Kharge arrived in Bhubaneswar on Friday.Kharge is here to campaign for the position of Congress President.

Upon his arrival at the Biju Patnaik International Airport (BPIA), senior leaders of the Odisha Congress, MLAs and State In-Charge received him and took him to the party office.

Congress' Digvijaya Singh met Kharge at the latter's residence after Kharge emerged as the top choice of Gandhis for the party presidential polls

New Delhi: Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday questioned the government on why the benefit of lower crude oil prices was not being passed on to the consumers. He said the government has also slashed funds for all welfare schemes. Raising the issue in the Lok Sabha during zero hour, Kharge said: “Consumers are not […]

New Delhi: The Lok Sabha on Tuesday unanimously condemned Pakistan’s decision to award death sentence to Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav and urged the government to take every step to save his life. Raising the matter during Question Hour, Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge said if Pakistan hangs Jadhav it will be a “pre-planned murder”. “No one […]

Bengaluru: Congress leader in the outgoing Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge and former Union Ministers M. Veerappa Moily and K. H. Muniyappa are among candidates the party high command cleared to contest from 18 parliamentary seats in Karnataka on late Saturday. “The party’s central election committee selected 18 candidates in New Delhi to contest from Karnataka […]

Bengaluru: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is heading for a landslide victory while the ruling Congress and the Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) alliance face rout in Karnataka’s 28 Lok Sabha constituencies where vote count was underway on Thursday. According to the latest trends available at noon, the BJP is leading in 23 seats, Congress in three, […]

New Delhi: Congress MP Mallikarjun Kharge is set to replace Ghulam Nabi Azad as Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, sources said. Sources in the Congress said that Sonia Gandhi as Chairman of the Congress Parliamentary party has written to the Chairman to appoint Kharge as the Leader of Opposition. However, there is no […]

New Delhi: The Chairman of the Rajya Sabha M.Venkaiah Naidu on Monday rejected the demand of Leader of Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge to suspend the Business under rule 267. Kharge had given a notice of suspension of the Business to discuss the fuel price hike. Kharge said, “The petrol price has reached Rs 100 per litre […]