Mallikarjun Kharge gets rousing welcome in Bengaluru
PTI, Nov 6, 2022, 12:40 PM IST
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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday reached the city to a grand welcome accorded by party leaders and workers.
This is Kharge’s maiden visit to Bengaluru since he assumed charge as the Congress president.
Former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, Congress state president D K Shivakumar and party MLAs and office bearers received the newly elected national president at the Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru.
A felicitation ceremony– ‘Sarvodaya Samavesha’ has been organised at the Bengaluru Palace ground today, where AICC general secretary and Karnataka party in-charge Randeep Singh Surjewala will also be present.
It will be the grand old party’s show of strength in the poll-bound Karnataka, where the assembly elections are due in less than six months, party sources said.
A Rajya Sabha member from Karnataka and a former union minister, Kharge was elected as the Congress president on October 19 after defeating rival Shashi Tharoor.
80-year-old Kharge, a Gandhi family loyalist, hails from Kalaburagi in Karnataka. He is the first Congress president in the last 24 years from the non-Gandhi family.
He is the second AICC president from Karnataka, the first one being Nijalingappa.
He is also the second Dalit Congress president after Jagjivan Ram.
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