Kharge is Popularly known as “solillada Saradara”, (a leader without defeat).
Staff Reporter
INDIA alliance has proposed congress president Malikaarjun Kharge’s name as PM candidate of Opposition alliance for the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections.
TMC Mamata Banerjee and AAAP Arvind Kejriwal proposed his name and all other agreed over it.
81-year-old Kharge’s rise in Congress estimation actually started in 2014 with Narendra Modi’s massive win and the Congress could not manage even one-tenth of Lok Sabha seats.
Popularly known as “solillada Saradara”, (a leader without defeat), in 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Kharge suffered his first electoral loss in political life spanning several decades. He had lost to BJP’s Umesh Jadhav in Gulbarga by a margin of 95,452 votes.Kharge was made Congress floor leader in Lok Sabha but was not recognised as Leader of the Opposition by the then Speaker Sumitra Mahajan as Congress tally was below the mark. In 2021, Kharge unseated Ghulam Nabi Azad as LoP Rajya Sabha and in 2022 became Congress president. In 2016, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi preferred him to be chairman of Public Accounts Committee replacing onetime Sonia Gandhi’s favourite K V Thomas, a Christian leader from Kerala. “West Bengal CM and Arvind Kejriwal proposed Kharge’s name as PM-candidate…,” MDMK leader Vaiko. “There was no opposition to that suggestion – Mallikarjun Kharge for PM face,” Vaiko said. “lets win first, then let’s see. I don’t seek anything” : Mallikarjun KhargeKharge sets up a 5-member National Alliance Committee for 2024 general electionsEarlier in the day Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge sets up a 5-member National Alliance Committee in the run-up to the 2024 General Elections.Mukul Wasnik to be the Convener of the Committee and other members are Ashok Gehlot, Bhupesh Baghel, Salman Khurshid and Mohan Prakash.
