Sonia Gandhi with AICC President Mallikarjun Kharge in New Delhi. File photo | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar Several Congress leaders, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and leaders across the political sides greeted former party chief Sonia Gandhi on her birthday on Friday, December 9, 2022, with AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge saying her “indomitable spirit” in … Read more
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge addresses a press conference in Ahmedabad, Monday, November 28, 2022. | Photo Credit: PTI Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday strongly pitched for organisational accountability from top to bottom, and said those unable to fulfil their responsibilities will have to make way for their colleagues. In his opening remarks at the … Read more
Assam Police stop vehicles moving in to Shillong and Meghalaya fearing backlash, following border firing incident near Assam-Meghalaya border. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement A day after violence at the Assam-Meghalaya border, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on November 23 alleged that the BJP’s North-East Democratic Alliance (NEDA) has failed the Northeast and called on Home … Read more
Sonia Gandhi said the Congress faces many challenges but with unity and strength it will move forward to tackle them as it has done before Sonia Gandhi said the Congress faces many challenges but with unity and strength it will move forward to tackle them as it has done before Veteran leader Mallikarjun Kharge formally … Read more
Mallikarjun Kharge will preside over a meeting of the Central Election Committee to shortlist potential candidates. Mallikarjun Kharge will preside over a meeting of the Central Election Committee to shortlist potential candidates. Hours after taking over as the Congress president on October 26, Mallikarjun Kharge will preside over a meeting of the Central Election Committee … Read more
The former union minister lauds Shashi Tharoor for taking on the challenge to contest the top Congress post. The former union minister lauds Shashi Tharoor for taking on the challenge to contest the top Congress post. Former Congress leader Ashwani Kumar has said the election of Mallikarjun Kharge as party president by a huge margin … Read more
Mallikarjun Kharge‘s trial would begin along with his stint as Congress president under the shadow of Sonia Gandhi and her children. Given the Congress establishment’s cultivated working style and instincts of the Congress brass, he will have to tread carefully the ‘Gandhi path’, which links 24 Akbar Road to 10 Janpath-12 Tughlak Lane axis of … Read more
He lost the election but Shashi Tharoor managed to score many a political point during his campaign for Congress president, a contest he lost to veteran party colleague Mallikarjun Kharge who was favoured to win. The author, wordsmith, former UN diplomat and social media pioneer with 8.3 million followers on Twitter demonstrated during the last … Read more
Mallikarjun Kharge has won the Congress Presidential elections by a landslide margin with 7,897 votes, senior leader Pramod Tiwari announced. Rival candidate Shashi Tharoor has congratulated President-elect Kharge and said that the revival of the party has truly begun today. Kharge will be the first non-Gandhi president of the party in 24 years. Congress Presidential … Read more
Ahead of Wednesday’s counting of votes in the Congress presidential poll, Lok Sabha member Shashi Tharoor’s team is learnt to have sent official complaints to the party’s Central Election Authority (CEA) regarding the polling process. On Wednesday, the Congress is all set to elect a non-Gandhi party chief as it geared up for the counting … Read more