Congress president poll: Mallikarjun Kharge may join race of party chief post, likely to file nomination today

Senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge will file his nomination for the October 17 election on Friday as the third candidate alongside Digvijaya Singh and Shashi Tharoor, according to reports. The 80-year-old leader Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha will reportedly meet party president Sonia Gandhi on the day.

TN National Desk

Updated Sep 30, 2022, 09:05 IST

Malikarjun Kharge will reportedly meet party president Sonia Gandhi on Friday. (File image)

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New Delhi: As the process of the Congress president election gathers pace ahead of the last day of filing nominations on Friday, senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge is likely to join the race for the party’s chief post.

Kharge will file his nomination for the October 17 election on Friday as the third candidate alongside Digvijaya Singh and Shashi Tharoor, according to reports.

The 80-year-old leader Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha will reportedly meet party president Sonia Gandhi on Friday.

This comes after some G-23 leaders, including Prithviraj Chavan, Bhupinder Hooda and Manish Tewari, met at the residence of Anand Sharma where they learnt to have discussed the Congress president post elections.

Earlier on Thursday, Rajasthan Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Ashok Gehlot announced that he will not be contesting the party’s president election, after taking moral responsibility for the political crisis in his state.

“I have decided that I will not contest the Congress president's election as I take moral responsibility for the events that took place on Sunday,” he said.

Following this, political observers in Madhya Pradesh have started assuming that the route for former Chief Minister and Rajya Sabha MP Digvijaya Singh to become chief of the party seems clear to some extent.

The names of Mukul Wasnik and Kumari Selja are also doing the rounds.

However, the final outcome will be known only after the contestants would file their nominations and the elections are held.

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