Senior Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge has resigned because the Leader of the Opposition within the Rajya Sabha, sources mentioned on Saturday, a day after he filed his nomination papers for the election of the AICC president.
Kharge’s resignation, which was despatched by the 80-year-old chief to Congress President Sonia Gandhi, is according to the occasion’s acknowledged ‘one particular person, one publish’ precept, which was introduced on the Udaipur ‘Chintan Shivir’ in May.
Sources mentioned Kharge had despatched his resignation final night time.
Senior leaders P Chidambaram and Digvijaya Singh are thought of the frontrunners to carry the publish of Leader of Opposition within the Rajya Sabha.
On Friday, the stage was set for the competition between Kharge and Shashi Tharoor for the publish of Congress President. Kharge, a Dalit chief from Karnataka, has emerged because the clear favorite.
The third candidate within the fray, former Jharkhand minister, KN Tripathi, is taken into account light-weight for the competitors.
Kharge, Tharoor and Tripathi filed nominations on the final day of the method, returning to the AICC headquarters after a very long time, with employees thronging the campus.
Kharge has filed 14 units of nomination papers together with high Congress leaders Ashok Gehlot, Digvijay Singh, AK Antony, Ambika Soni, Mukul Wasnik and members of G-23 Ginger group together with Anand Sharma, Bhupinder Hooda, Prithviraj. Chavan and Manish Tewari.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
