New Delhi: Senior Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge has resigned because the Chief of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, sources stated on Saturday, a day after he filed his nomination papers for the AICC president’s election.
Kharge’s resignation, which the 80-year-old chief despatched to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, is according to the social gathering’s declared ‘One individual, One publish’ precept that was introduced on the Udaipur ‘Chintan Shivir’ in Might.
The resignation letter was despatched by Kharge final night time, the sources stated.
Senior leaders P Chidambaram and Digvijaya Singh are learnt to be the front-runners to tackle the mantle of Chief of Opposition in Rajya Sabha.
The stage was set on Friday for a contest between Kharge and Shashi Tharoor for the Congress president’s publish. Kharge, a Dalit chief from Karnataka has emerged because the clear favorite.
The third candidate within the fray, Ok N Tripathi, a former Jharkhand minister, is taken into account a light-weight for the competition.
Kharge, Tharoor and Tripathi filed nominations on the final day of the method which noticed the AICC headquarters come again to life after a very long time, with employees swarming the complicated.
Kharge, flanked by high Congress leaders, has filed 14 units of nomination papers with the proposers together with Ashok Gehlot, Digvijaya Singh, A Ok Antony, Ambika Soni, Mukul Wasnik and members from the G-23 ginger group comprising Anand Sharma, Bhupinder Hooda, Prithviraj Chavan and Manish Tewari.
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