New Delhi: In his first organisational transfer as Congress president, Mallikarjun Kharge Wednesday constituted a 47-member Steering Committee to operate rather than the Congress Working Committee (CWC) — the very best resolution making physique of the celebration — until a brand new CWC is constituted.
Shashi Tharoor, Kharge’s rival within the Congress presidential elections, didn’t discover a place within the committee.
Although Tharoor had acquired 1,072 votes in comparison with Kharge’s 7,897, his efficiency towards a perceived “institution candidate” who had the blessings of the Gandhi household was higher than that of celebration stalwarts Sharad Pawar and Rajesh Pilot within the 1997 presidential election.
Pawar secured 888 votes and Pilot obtained 354 as towards Sitaram Kesri’s 6,224 within the tripartite contest that was until just lately the final time a non-Gandhi was elected as Congress president.
Given Tharoor’s efficiency and his spirit to compete although Kharge was an “institution” candidate, it was anticipated that he can be accommodated in an vital organisational position. The truth is, Tharoor had expressed willingness to work with Kharge for the sake of the celebration after the ballot outcome was out.
The Lok Sabha MP from Thiruvananthapuram was additionally part of the dissident G-23 group which wrote to then interim president Sonia Gandhi asking for a “seen management”.
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Hooda & Tewari out, Anand Sharma accommodated
Of the G-23 members, solely Anand Sharma and Mukul Wasnik have made it to the steering committee. Whereas Wasnik had made peace with the Gandhis some time again, Sharma was, until just lately, a dissident. Each, nonetheless, had signed as nominators for Kharge’s candidacy.
A shock omission is former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, who was additionally a G-23 member. Hooda holds mass attraction in Haryana and in addition has appreciable sway within the celebration’s state unit. His son, Deepender Hooda, had campaigned for Kharge within the run as much as the organisational polls. Each Hoodas haven’t made it to the panel.
Equally, Manish Tewari and Prithviraj Chavan — each from the dissident group — have additionally not made it to the committee regardless of having nominated Kharge over Tharoor within the presidential election.
All members of the CWC submitted their resignations to Kharge after he took over because the celebration president Wednesday.
(Edited by Tony Rai)
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