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Mapanna Mallikarjun Kharge (Kannada: [malːikaːrd͡ʒun kʰɐrɡe]; born 21 July 1942) is an Indian lawyer and politician serving as the President of the Indian National Congress since 2022, and Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha since 2021. He has been a Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from Karnataka since 2020. He was the chairperson of Public Accounts Committee in 16th Lok Sabha from 2016 to 2019.
Shri Mallikarjun Kharge was first elected to Parliament in 2009 and has served as a Labour Minister, Minister for Railways and for Social Justice and Empowerment. His contribution towards the insertion of Article 371J for the development of the Kalyan Karnataka Region is most well known and appreciated in Karnataka. In 2014, he was re-elected to the Lok Sabha and he was the Leader of the Congress Party in the Lok Sabha.
Oct 19, 2022 · Mallikarjun Kharge, 80, was appointed by members over fellow politician Shashi Tharoor, a former under-secretary general for communications and public information at the United Nations, to replace ...
Oct 19, 2022 · Mallikarjun Kharge wins Congress presidential election with over 7,800 votes Mr. Kharge (80), the first non-Gandhi leader in 24 years to occupy the party’s top post, will take charge on October 26.
Jun 4, 2024 · B.V. Naik revolted after he was denied the party ticket in Raichur. Incumbent Lok Sabha member Karadi Sanganna quit the party and joined Congress after he was denied ticket. Karnataka Election ...
Oct 19, 2022 · NEW DELHI: Congress veteran Mallikarjun Kharge became the first non-Gandhi President after 24 years by defeating his opponent Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor by a margin of over 6,000 votes.
Oct 27, 2023 · As Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge completed one year in office, the party said it has made “significant progress” under his leadership and he has been instrumental in revitalising the ...
Oct 26, 2022 · Mallikarjun Kharge Wednesday took charge as the first non-Gandhi president of the Indian National Congress in nearly two and a half decades. Kharge secured the top post defeating party MP Shashi Tharoor by a huge margin at the presidential election held last week. Addressing party workers as the chief for the first time, Kharge said, “It’s an emotional moment for me as the son of a labourer, a common Congress worker, has taken over as chief of the Congress party. ...
Sep 30, 2022 · Senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge (File) The devout assign a role to destiny in the rise and fall of leaders. Others say it is a combination of various factors — timing, circumstances, diplomacy and craft – apart from, of course, machinations and intrigue. Who else would know it better than Mallikarjun Kharge, the man who lost out ...
Oct 19, 2022 · Veteran politician Mallikarjun Kharge has won the internal election to become the president of India's main opposition Congress party. Mr Kharge was competing against charismatic MP Shashi Tharoor ...
Oct 19, 2022 · On October 19, Mallikarjun Kharge was elected president of the Indian National Congress. In an organisational poll held two days ago, the 80-year-old Rajya Sabha leader defeated his rival Shashi Tharoor. Of the total 9,385 votes, Kharge polled 7,897 votes while Tharoor got 1,072 votes; 416 votes were invalid. The former Union railway minister, who has also held several important ministries in Karnataka, is the second Dalit president of the party in five decades after Jagjivan Ram became ...
Jan 5, 2023 · Eighty-year-old Mallikarjun Kharge is a man who has come up the ranks. Though saddled with the unenvious position of having to steer a party that is at its lowest in terms of electoral performance, Kharge, the organisational man that he is, appears unfazed. The challenges are not merely extraneous but internal as well, requiring him to walk the political tightrope.
Oct 9, 2023 · In December 2022, just two months after he took over as Congress president, Mallikarjun Kharge decided to rush party veteran Digvijaya Singh to Telangana on a mission. Kharge had information that a situation was developing in the state unit and even a split could not be ruled out – an alarming situation for the party in a state headed for ...
Jul 1, 2024 · The Rajya Sabha on Monday witnessed several light moments between Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar and Leader of the Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge during the discussion on the Motion of Thanks to the President's address. As Kharge rose to participate in the debate, he told Dhankhar that he wouldn't be able to stand for long due to knee pain.
Jul 21, 2023 · Mallikarjun Kharge is an Indian politician and member of the Indian National Congress (INC). On 16 February 2021, he started serving as a Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha. Previously, he held the charge of the Ministry of Railways and Ministry of Labour and Employment in the central government and served as the Leader of the Opposition in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly.
May 21, 2024 · Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge has backed the INDIA bloc to come up trumps against the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha election, arguing that mega wins in 2014 and 2019 - in which it scored 282 and ...
Kharge too, maintained that in the recently concluded Lok Sabha election, “People have spoken against the dictatorial and anti-democratic ways of the ruling party. It is a decisive rejection of ...
Mapanna Mallikarjun Kharge [2] was born on Tuesday, 21 July 1942 ( age 81 years; as of 2023) in Warwatti, Bidar, Hyderabad State, British India. His zodiac sign is Cancer. At 7, Kharge and his family were forced to flee from their native village due to communal riots in which he lost his mother.
1 day ago · — Mallikarjun Kharge (@kharge) July 10, 2024 Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said the news of the death of a large number of people in a horrific road accident in Unnao is ...
2 days ago · — Mallikarjun Kharge (@kharge) July 9, 2024. His comments came a day after the Labour Ministry refuted a report by the Citigroup, which claimed that the government will find it challenging to ...
Mapanna Mallikarjun Kharge is a member of the Indian National Congress in the 16th Lok Sabha. Prior to this, he was the Minister of Railways and Minister of Labour and Employment. Since 2009, he ...
Oct 26, 2022 · Mallikarjun Kharge paying homage to Mahatma Gandhi at Rajghat before taking charge as Congress president, in New Delhi on Wednesday, October 26, 2022. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
Oct 19, 2022 · Mallikarjun Kharge is the first non-Gandhi leader after 24 years to occupy the post of Congress President. Check Mallikarjun Kharge Age, Education, Wife, Political Career, Caste, net worth, and ...
As the INDIA alliance commences its preparations for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday said “140 crore Indians are looking towards us with the hope to ...
Jun 9, 2024 · New Delhi: Congress President and Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge, has received an invitation to attend Prime Minister Narendra Modi's swearing-in ceremony on Sunday. The Congress stated that Kharge will attend the event in his capacity as the Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha.
5 days ago · In a post on ‘X’ in Hindi, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said the Modi government has told the Supreme Court that no paper has been leaked in NEET-UG. “This blatant lie is being told to lakhs of youths. Their future is being ruined,” Kharge said. The Congress leader pointed out that the education ministry has said that “there have been irregularities or cheating only at a few places” but this is “misleading”.
4 days ago · Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge is currently undergoing treatment at Arya Vaidya Sala in Kerala's Kottakkal. When 82-year-old Kharge reached Kottakkal from Karnataka, AICC general secretary (organisation) KC Venugopal and local party leaders received him. It is learnt that Kharge has been advised by doctors to stay at Kottakkal, famous for various Ayurvedic treatments, for about a fortnight.
MALLIKARJUN KHARGE GULBARGA (KARNATAKA) Party:INC . S/o|D/o|W/o: Sri. Mapanna Kharge . Age: 77 . Name Enrolled as Voter in: 44 - Gulbarga Dakshin (Karnataka) constituency, at Serial no 879 in Part no 119 . ... Corporation Bank Sadashivanagar Branch SB ac 520101199698763 Joint held with son Priyank M Kharge 100968 50,484 50 Thou+ Corporation Bank RT Nagar Branch SB ac no 520101021387873 jointly held with son Mr Priyank M Khage 1605297 8,02,649 8 Lacs+ Syndicate Bank Gulbarga ac 13012010028548
NEW DELHI: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge blamed 'corruption' and 'criminal negligence' for the collapse of the Delhi Airport canopy at Terminal 1 on Friday morning, resulting in one death ...
2 days ago · The Modi Government has only one mission and that is to "keep the youth jobless", Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge alleged on July 9 in a scathing attack against the Centre on the issue of ...
