Mallikarjun Kharge rubbishes BJP’s declare of him being ‘Sonia’s distant management’

By PTI

AHMEDABAD: Senior Congress chief and candidate for the occasion’s presidential polls Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday mentioned there is no such thing as a such factor as “remote control” in his occasion not like the Bharatiya Janata Party, the place each president is chosen by a “consensus”.

In town to marketing campaign for the election to the occasion’s prime put up, Kharge asserted that if turns into the top of the grand outdated occasion, the distant management could be with him.

He was replying to a question concerning the BJP’s declare that he would act because the “remote control” and “proxy” of Sonia Gandhi after being elected to the put up.

“A lot of people say I am a remote control and work from behind. They say I will do what Sonia Gandhi will say. There is no such thing as remote control in Congress, people take decisions together. It is your thinking. A few people are creating this idea,” Kharge mentioned.

Attacking the BJP, he mentioned, “How many times has the prime minister held (party president’s) election? All the presidents were selected through consensus, and you are teaching me? Where is the remote control in the BJP? When I become president, the remote control will stay with me.”

Decisions could be taken by “our committee, elected members, working committee and parliamentary board”, he mentioned, including that he would attempt his finest to make sure 50 per cent of organisational posts are reserved for these under 50 years of age.

Hailing Sonia Gandhi, Kharge mentioned she had made a famend economist the nation’s prime minister (Manmohan Singh) slightly than taking over the put up herself or contemplating her son for it.

She hails from a household that has sacrificed its members for this nation and has even spoken of pardoning the killers of her husband, Kharge mentioned.

He mentioned if he turns into the occasion president, he would attempt to give illustration to girls, youth, Dalits, backward courses at each degree of the occasion, and in addition attraction to state items to struggle polls unitedly.

“I have jumped into the fray to save the ideology of my party, the ideology of Gandhi, Nehru and to strengthen the call for unity given by Sardar Patel,” he mentioned.

Asked about his competitor Shashi Tharoor, the veteran Karnataka chief mentioned he was contesting the polls after colleagues and staff requested him to take action.

“When our workers, delegates and youth say you have to take leadership, then should I run away?” he requested.

He mentioned the Congress faces many challenges, however has the capability to face and overcome them bravely.

Kharge additionally recalled that after the flash floods in Kedarnath, Narendra Modi, who was then the chief minister of Gujarat, had known as him in search of a particular prepare to deliver again the folks from his state caught within the Uttarakhand city.

“At that time, we had tried our best to help them and send them home at the government level. If we work together, then the country will progress,” he asserted.

Kharge, who’s right here to satisfy Gujarat Congress delegates for the occasion polls scheduled for October 17, additionally hailed Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’.

AHMEDABAD: Senior Congress chief and candidate for the occasion’s presidential polls Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday mentioned there is no such thing as a such factor as “remote control” in his occasion not like the Bharatiya Janata Party, the place each president is chosen by a “consensus”.

In town to marketing campaign for the election to the occasion’s prime put up, Kharge asserted that if turns into the top of the grand outdated occasion, the distant management could be with him.

He was replying to a question concerning the BJP’s declare that he would act because the “remote control” and “proxy” of Sonia Gandhi after being elected to the put up.

“A lot of people say I am a remote control and work from behind. They say I will do what Sonia Gandhi will say. There is no such thing as remote control in Congress, people take decisions together. It is your thinking. A few people are creating this idea,” Kharge mentioned.

Attacking the BJP, he mentioned, “How many times has the prime minister held (party president’s) election? All the presidents were selected through consensus, and you are teaching me? Where is the remote control in the BJP? When I become president, the remote control will stay with me.”

Decisions could be taken by “our committee, elected members, working committee and parliamentary board”, he mentioned, including that he would attempt his finest to make sure 50 per cent of organisational posts are reserved for these under 50 years of age.

Hailing Sonia Gandhi, Kharge mentioned she had made a famend economist the nation’s prime minister (Manmohan Singh) slightly than taking over the put up herself or contemplating her son for it.

She hails from a household that has sacrificed its members for this nation and has even spoken of pardoning the killers of her husband, Kharge mentioned.

He mentioned if he turns into the occasion president, he would attempt to give illustration to girls, youth, Dalits, backward courses at each degree of the occasion, and in addition attraction to state items to struggle polls unitedly.

“I have jumped into the fray to save the ideology of my party, the ideology of Gandhi, Nehru and to strengthen the call for unity given by Sardar Patel,” he mentioned.

Asked about his competitor Shashi Tharoor, the veteran Karnataka chief mentioned he was contesting the polls after colleagues and staff requested him to take action.

“When our workers, delegates and youth say you have to take leadership, then should I run away?” he requested.

He mentioned the Congress faces many challenges, however has the capability to face and overcome them bravely.

Kharge additionally recalled that after the flash floods in Kedarnath, Narendra Modi, who was then the chief minister of Gujarat, had known as him in search of a particular prepare to deliver again the folks from his state caught within the Uttarakhand city.

“At that time, we had tried our best to help them and send them home at the government level. If we work together, then the country will progress,” he asserted.

Kharge, who’s right here to satisfy Gujarat Congress delegates for the occasion polls scheduled for October 17, additionally hailed Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’.