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Mallikarjun Kharge with Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi on the occasion chiefship takeover ceremony.
New Delhi:
Elections in two states inside this 12 months, challenges to the 2 remaining Congress governments subsequent 12 months, after which the 2024 battle to cease one other Modi sweep — Mallikarjun Kharge obtained greater than only a certificates from the occasion as he formally turned Congress president at the moment. “Immediately I bear in mind all of the previous occasion chiefs as I search each occasion employee’s help, in full energy, to tackle the challenges earlier than the Congress,” he stated after taking up, talking in Hindi.
The 80-year-old Karnataka veteran, who defeated Shashi Tharoor, 66, in a somewhat eventful election solely final week, changed Sonia Gandhi as he obtained the victory certificates.
“It was on January 15, 1998, in Bengaluru when Sonia Gandhi at her first public rally stated she’s taking her first political classes from Karnataka. Her politics has been that of sacrifice, above self-interest and quest for energy alone,” he stated. “Now our nation is seeing politics of lies and deceit… Congress’s ideology is predicated on India’s Structure — it is time to put it aside.”
Mallikarjun Kharge is the primary Congress chief from exterior the Gandhi household in 24 years, however Rahul Gandhi, who was on the operate, stays the face of the occasion nonetheless — a purpose why Mr Kharge faces the “rubberstamp” cost.
“Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’, from Kanyakumari to Kashmir, is a historic transfer,” Mr Kharge stated, “He’s chatting with individuals immediately. He’s gathering individuals who will not be with us formally, however need an India that is not divided on communal traces. It is my obligation to take that agenda ahead.”
Mr Kharge has billed “consensus and session” as his management technique. He met with former prime minister Manmohan Singh at his dwelling yesterday. This morning, he paid homage to Mahatma Gandhi at his memorial, Rajghat.
He additionally visited memorials of former PMs Jawaharlal Nehru, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi, moreover former deputy PM Jagjivan Ram, who was the primary Dalit chief of the Congress; Mr Kharge is the second.
Himalayan activity
In simply over two weeks, the Congress will hope the voters of Himachal Pradesh proceed with their pendulum sample to deliver it again to energy after 5 years of BJP rule. The hill state votes on November 12.
One other election in the identical timeframe — precise dates awaited — is in Gujarat, PM Narendra Modi’s dwelling state, the place the Congress has been working an admittedly lowkey marketing campaign as its hopes of unseating the BJP aren’t visibly excessive.
Outcomes of those two states will probably be out in December.
Holding on
In 2023, a much bigger check awaits Mr Kharge. The 12 months will see 9 meeting elections, together with in Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, the one two states the place the Congress has chief ministers.
The 12 months 2023 will even see the fruits of Rahul Gandhi’s five-month ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’, the Kanyakumari-to-Kashmir march that the occasion hopes will assist it cease the BJP from one other sweep, within the 2024 common elections.
Mr Kharge is thought for not dropping an election barring the 2019 Lok Sabha contest since he entered the fray in 1969. After the 2019 loss, Sonia Gandhi introduced Mr Kharge to the Rajya Sabha and in February 2021 made him the chief of the opposition. He has served as chief of Congress in Lok Sabha, moreover having been a key participant in Karnataka because the Seventies
Usual, or new?
The final non-Gandhi Congress president was Sitaram Kesri, who was eliminated in 1998 simply after two years into his five-year time period when Sonia Gandhi lastly acceded to coming to the fore.
Exterior of the quick election scene, Mr Kharge additionally faces the problem of restoring the occasion’s primacy within the opposition house as regional events discover it unworthy to concede house to a diminished Congress.
Throughout the occasion, he could should implement reforms pledged on the Congress ‘Chintan Shivir’ in Udaipur if he needs to be seen because the face of one thing new. All this comes within the face of insinuations that not a lot would change as he’s a nominee of the Gandhis.
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