Shouts of ‘Jai Shri Ram’ and ‘Jai Yediyurappa’ greet the media as we walk into Lingaraj Nagar Sadbhavna Bhawan where the former chief minister and one of the tallest BJP leaders is expected anytime to campaign for Mahesh Tenginkai — the party pick pitted opposite Jagadish Shettar. Till a few days ago, that is before the candidates’ list was declared …
Published : Oct 19, 2022 14:58 IST Mapanna Mallikarjun Kharge, a staunch Gandhi family loyalist from Karnataka, has become the Congress’ first non-Gandhi president in 24 years. Congress governed India for decades after independence from Britain in 1947 but is now a shadow of its former self, discredited and crushed under the electoral juggernaut of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya …
Highlights More than 9,500 delegates had cast their votes for Congress presidential polls Mallikarjun Kharge bagged 7,897 votes 1,072 votes were cast in favour of Shashi Tharoor Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday became the Congress party's first non-Gandhi president in 24 years. A staunch Gandhi family loyalist, 80-year-old Kharge succeeded Sonia Gandhi at the grand old party's highest office, as he …
BENGALURU: Popularly known as "Solillada Saradara" in his home-State of Karnataka Mapanna Mallikarjun Kharge, who on Friday filed nomination for the Congress' presidential polls, is a hardcore loyalist of the Gandhi family. That Kharge was unconquerable at the hustings was mirrored until 2014 Lok Sabha polls in which he bucked the Narendra Modi wave that swept Karnataka, particularly Hyderabad-Karnataka region, …
In a late but the most potent entry in the contest so far, senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge filed the nomination to run for Congress president on Friday, setting up a clash of the titans against Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor. When Kharge was made Leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha after Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister in …