Congress’ presidential election candidate Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday listed fighting the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as the most important challenge facing his party and accused the saffron outfit, which heads the government at the Centre, for “destroying” the Constitution and seeking autonomy. Accused of “weakening” the bodies. Talking to reporters here, Kharge said that he believes in collective leadership and will also consult party leaders Sonia Gandhi if elected as the president. Rahul Gandhi on organizational matters.
Asked who would be the Congress’ prime ministerial candidate if he is elected as the party chief, he refrained from giving a direct answer and quoted a popular saying in his home state Karnataka, “If you Survive at one festival, you’ll dance at another event. ,
“I am here for organizational elections. We will look into all these things later,” said the Rajya Sabha MP.
The senior Congressman said that he is contesting for the top post of the party to save the Constitution and democracy in the country.
The veteran politician said he was “forced” by Congress workers to take the field as no one from the Gandhi family came forward to contest as they wanted to stay away from the process to ensure fair elections.
The former Union minister accused the BJP of “stealing” Congress MLAs and toppling the party-led governments in nearly half a dozen states.
The biggest challenge before the party is the present BJP government which is destroying the Constitution, weakening and abusing autonomous institutions. Kharge arrived in Bhopal on October 17 to address Congress representatives ahead of the party’s presidential election, where he is taking on Kerala Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor.
Our party’ came to power in about six states under the leadership of Rahul Gandhi, but the BJP government under the leadership of Modi ji (Prime Minister) Narendra Modi And Shah (Home Minister Amit Shah) stole our MLAs due to which we lost governments in Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Manipur, Goa and Maharashtra.
On one hand they say that Congress has no base and people are not supporting it, but on the other hand, party governments which got voter support and were elected according to the constitution, they toppled. Which dacoit stole them, I don’t know, Kharge said.
The 80-year-old politician from Karnataka said that he is fighting elections to save the Constitution and democracy in the country. Kharge said he decided to enter the ring after Congress workers and leaders proposed his candidature.
For the issues which I have raised, we will fight from the streets to Parliament. There are many things against which we have to fight together, including inflation, unemployment, depreciation of rupee… The Congress leader said that he believes in collective leadership and announced Udaipur Chintan Shivir after consulting everyone if elected. will implement.
I believe in collective leadership, will take everyone into confidence and consult everyone before taking any decision based on majority like implementation of Udaipur Declaration, Kharge said. I will consult Sonia Gandhi as well as Rahul Gandhi as he is the party chief for more than 20 years (put together) and under his leadership our party formed government twice (at center) and many welfare schemes for poor Made it , said the Rajya Sabha MP.
The Udaipur Declaration, adopted at a Congress convention held in Rajasthan in May, refers to a set of proposals such as offering one person, one post and 50 per cent of party posts to those below the age of 50.
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