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New Delhi, October 20
Newly elected Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge will take over his new task at a perform on the All India Congress Committee (AICC) headquarters on October 26.
The certificates of his election to the publish may even be offered to him on the perform on the day and he’ll assume his new function from then on.
The Congress on Wednesday elected ‘loyalist’ Mallikarjun Kharge as its new president, the primary non-Gandhi to move the 137-year-old get together in 24 years and succeed long-time chief Sonia Gandhi.
The 80-year-old Kharge trounced his 66-year-old rival, Shashi Tharoor bagging over 84 per cent of the votes within the presidential election. Kharge polled 7,897 Pradesh Congress Committee delegate votes out of 9,385, whereas Tharoor bagged 1072.
“Function for the presentation of the certificate of election to the newly elected Congress President Shri Mallikarjun Kharge will be held on Wednesday the 26th October 2022, at 10.30 am at AICC Headquarters, 24 Akbar Road, New Delhi,” AICC common secretary Ok C Venugopal stated on Twitter.
Among these invited for the occasion embody CWC members, PCC presidents, CLP leaders and leaders of Congress legislative councils, apart from all AICC workplace bearers and heads of frontal organisatons and varied departments and cells.
Besides, former chief ministers and former union ministers and all Members of Parliament, ministers in state governments and former PCC presidents and CLP leaders in all states have additionally been invited for the taking on, other than state PCC working presidents.
Kharge was the Leader of the Opposition within the Rajya Sabha, a publish from which he resigned quickly after submitting his nomination for the highest publish within the Congress. He was earlier the Leader of the Congress in Lok Sabha. He has been a Union minister for nearly a decade.
Though Kharge has been a nine-time legislator in Karnataka, he couldn’t grow to be the chief minister of the state.
He hails from a humble Dalit household and has reached the highest place within the get together from the grassroot degree.
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