He met Congress president Sonia Gandhi and submitted his resignation letter consistent with the one individual, one submit precept adopted by the occasion on the Udaipur Chintan Shivir.
Sonia, the chairperson of the Congress parliamentary occasion, will now appoint a brand new chief and convey the choice to the Rajya Sabha Chairman.
The query now’s who will succeed Kharge because the Chief of Opposition within the Rajya Sabha. Whereas sources stated the occasion isn’t any hurry to take a call, the excitement is the submit may go to a frontrunner primarily from the Hindi heartland.
Sources stated Digvijaya Singh, who bowed out of the presidential race, Pramod Tiwari and in addition Mukul Wasnik, who’s from Maharashtra, may very well be in rivalry.
With Kharge, who’s from south India, trying set to grow to be the occasion president and the occasion already has Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury as its chief in Lok Sabha, it may very well be taking a look at an individual from the Hindi belt because the Chief of Opposition within the Higher Home to stability regional equations.
If the management decides to look past north India, former Union minister P Chidambaram may very well be thought of.