Mallikarjun Kharge

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Karnataka Congress leaders during the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) meeting, in Bengaluru, Sunday. (Photo: PTI)

K'taka Congress MLAs leave CM's choice to Kharge

Insiders claim former CM Siddaramaiah is the frontrunner for the CM’s post, but trouble for the high command won’t be over soon

15 May 2023 12:00 AM

Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge with BRS MP K. Keshava Rao, DMK MP TR Baalu, AAP MP Sanjay Singh, RJD MP Manoj Jha and fellow opposition MPs during a joint press conference following their 'Tiranga March', in New Delhi, Thursday, April 6, 2023. (Photo: PTI)

Shikha Mukerjee | India’s political topography starts to look a bit different

Standing together in solidarity against the perceived intimidation and coercive tactics of Modi govt is reassuring for all political parties

20 Apr 2023 12:05 AM

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar with Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav at a function. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Operation Nitish welcome

It would be a big move of the next stage if Mr Kumar, who has both the stature and experience to match Mr Modi

15 Apr 2023 12:20 AM

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addresses the Congress' 85th Plenary session on its 3rd day, in Nava Raipur, Sunday, Feb. 26, 2023. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | At Raipur, Congress split between past and future

It was the common point of bemoaning of most attendees that nothing changes in the party, despite the defeats and that no lessons are learnt

28 Feb 2023 12:10 AM

It is a position kept vacant for the Congress but it will have to fight a patient and careful battle before it gets to occupy it. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | It’ll take more than Cong to form a front against BJP

The Congress and its elected president must, hence, abandon the thought that they are the natural leaders of an anti-BJP front.

24 Feb 2023 12:05 AM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi replies to the Motion of Thanks on the President's Address as Congress MP Rahul Gandhi listens to him in the Lok Sabha during Budget Session of Parliament, in New Delhi. (PTI Photo)

Anand K. Sahay | Ideological conflicts set to intensify in run-up to 2024

Politics is at the bitterest it has been in a long time

18 Feb 2023 12:44 AM

File photo of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addressing the closing ceremony of Bharat Jodo Yatra, at Sher-i-Kashmir cricket stadium in Srinagar. (PTI Photo)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | A new narrative for India’s future: Can Rahul script it?

The respect and deference accorded to him stresses that the importance lies in the position, not the person

15 Feb 2023 12:05 AM

It would be better for Congress to set its own agenda and try and convince the people about it instead of giving ammunition to the BJP to accomplish its mission against the Opposition. (Photo: PTI/File)

AA Edit | Congress must build own narrative, not flay BJP’s

Congress leaders must disabuse themselves of the thought that they still control the national narrative

25 Jan 2023 12:10 AM

The Bharat Jodo Yatra is not “a journey without maps”. It has crept up on the existing grammar of politics. (Representational Image/PTI)

Anand K. Sahay | Early signals of a churning, in India’s politics and civil society

In the regions where state elections will be fought, the real contest will be between the BJP and the Congress

28 Dec 2022 12:00 AM

It is now up to Rahul Gandhi to nurture inner-party democracy by deferring to Mr Kharge as the leader and letting him run the party. (Representational Image)

Mohan Guruswamy | Dynastic politics in India: Long live our democracy!

Except for the CPI(M) and the BJP, every political party in India has a dynastic line of succession, or more aptly inheritance

20 Dec 2022 12:00 AM

Congress party president Mallikarjun Kharge. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Kharge must crack the whip

Accountability is a cornerstone virtue and a test of fairness of any organisation or system; and the Congress party has been found wanting

06 Dec 2022 12:15 AM

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge (PTI)

BJP trying to misuse my remarks: Mallikarjun Kharge on 'Ravan' row

'Politics is not about individuals. It is about policies, it is about BJP's performance, and it is about the type of politics they practice'

03 Dec 2022 11:29 AM

Mr Gehlot’s claims that Sachin Pilot tried to undermine his government at the behest of the BJP and that money changed hands in the process are of a very serious nature. (DC Image)

AA Edit | Kharge must halt Rajasthan drift

The latest allegations, coming from none other than CM Ashok Gehlot, raise legal, moral and ethical issues that need to be addressed

26 Nov 2022 12:15 AM

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge resigned from this post when he filed his nomination for the party’s presidency. (Photo: PTI)

Anita Katyal | Kharge may stay RS Opp. leader; Miraya Vadra’s ‘Twitter Jatra’

Kharge’s continuation may become tricky after Cong adopted the Udaipur declaration which underlined the principle of "one person, one post"

13 Nov 2022 12:00 AM

He will have to choose his tactics and instruments, and gather advisors from various states without losing time -- in fact, before a fresh Congress Working Committee can be elected and the Parliamentary Board set up. — ANI

Anand K. Sahay | Can Kharge & Rahul’s yatra energise Cong, target govt?

The vastly-experienced Mallikarjun Kharge, from the large, oppressed Dalit community, has convincingly won the Cong presidential election

27 Oct 2022 11:14 PM

Two Assembly elections this year — Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh — which traditionally are fought between the Congress and the BJP — and nine more next year — will be the real test for the Congress president. — AP

AA Edit | As election season begins, Kharge faces trial by fire

Mr Kharge’s first task will be to reintroduce the basics of democracy in the party and the first test will be to see if he goes for CWC poll

27 Oct 2022 10:32 PM

New Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge assumes charge at AICC Headquarters, in New Delhi, Wednesday, Oct 26, 2022. Former party president Sonia Gandhi, Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot and party MP Rahul Gandhi are also seen. (PTI Photo/Manvender Vashist Lav)

Kharge takes charge; all of CWC, AICC general secretarys quit

Soon after the resignation of the CWC members, the new president constituted a steering committee till the time a new CWC is constituted

27 Oct 2022 6:59 AM

Congress leader Sonia Gandhi greeting newly elected party president Mallikarjun Kharge in New Delhi. (AP)

Shikha Mukerjee | Cong’s Kharge era: Can he & Gandhis make it work?

Among the immediate and urgent challenges facing the Congress and its new non-Gandhi president are the Assembly elections in Gujarat and HP

22 Oct 2022 12:00 AM

Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra casting their vote in the Congress president elections at the AICC headquarters

Congress presidential polls: Voting begins in Kharge vs Tharoor contest

Over 9,000 Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) delegates form the electoral college to pick the party chief in a secret ballot

17 Oct 2022 12:01 PM

Rajasthan watchers had seen long ago that Mr Pilot, while attempting to overthrow Mr Gehlot as CM, had virtually crossed over to the BJP side. (Photo: PTI)

Sunil Gatade | Dilemma for Congress in Raj: To axe or not to axe

A decision on the leadership issue in Rajasthan is like resolving the Gordian knot

10 Oct 2022 12:05 AM

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