Tag: Mallikarjun Kharge

  • Dharmendra Pradhan takes on Mallikarjun Kharge over university vacancies.

    Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Monday clashed over vacancies in central universities on X with the latter accusing the Congress of denying “rights of SCs, STs, and OBCs” for decades.

    Kharge had earlier attacked the Modi government citing an RTI reply that claimed 27% teaching posts in 46 central universities were vacant with the maximum unfilled seats in the SC, ST and OBC categories besides the vacancies in the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) in professor level category.

    Later in the day, Pradhan slammed the Congress for its “habit of lying” and pointed to the data from the 2014 UPA era which he claimed showed 37% of central university posts vacant, with nearly 60% seats vacant in SC, ST, and OBC post categories. The Union minister claimed the vacancies had reduced to 26.8% under the NDA government.

  • After Mallikarjun Kharge’s caution, BJP says Congress misled people

    The BJP on Friday demanded Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge’s apology following the Congress president’s suggestion that his party’s state units should make only those promises that are fiscally doable, a statement seen by many as an acknowledgment of financial constraints that some of its guarantees face in states. .

    BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad mockingly asked if Kharge has given his first “gyan” to Gandhi, noting the former Congress president often boasts of “khata khat” (immediate) transfer of money to different population segments during state and national elections in the case of his party coming to power.

    Kharge has realized that the Congress should not make reckless announcements, the former Law Minister told reporters, claiming that the partyrun governments in states like Karnataka, Telangana and Himachal Pradesh are faced with financial difficulties in fulfilling the guarantees offered to the people.

  • Kharge, Rahul Gandhi to visit pollbound Jammu and Kashmir on August 2122

    Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi are scheduled to visit Jammu and Srinagar on August 2122 and are likely to meet some INDIA bloc leaders for possible prepoll alliances.

    The visit assumes significance as both Congress and National Conference (NC) have expressed inclination for a strategic ‘prepoll alliance’, especially in Jammu division, where the BJP is claiming that it will get a majority of the seats.

    NC leader and former J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah recently said that they were in touch with the Congress top leadership and the newlyappointed J&K Congress president Tariq Hameed Karra is also on record saying that they were open to talks with “likeminded parties” to weave a “respectable alliance” ahead of the assembly polls. Kharge and Rahul Gandhi will arrive in Jammu on August 21 and after holding some meetings there, will fly to Srinagar the same evening.

  • Sitharaman, Kharge spar over ‘injustice’ to oppnruled states

    Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday sparred with finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the House over the budget, with the former alleging that Oppositionruled states have not received any funds, a charge Sitharaman dismissed. She said while allocations have been made, it is not possible to name each state in a speech. Soon after the Upper House met, Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar called upon Kharge to speak. “There is nothing in the budget for states and their plates are empty. The plates of two states have pakoras and jalebis but the other states have nothing. There is nothing for Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, “Chhattisgarh or Delhi or even Odisha. All funds have been given to keep some people happy and to save their seat (power),” he said. balance, how will development take place? All Opposition parties condemn this,” Kharge said. But when Sitharaman, who was present in the House, the Opposition walked out. At this, Dhankhar lamented that the LoP has “under a ploy and strategy” misused the opportunity given to him by the chair and caused this disruption “as a weapon”. However, Sitharaman continued with her response and maintained that in a budget speech one does not get an opportunity to name every state. “This is a deliberate attempt by Congress to give an impression to the people that nothing has been given to our state… I challenge the Congress party that for all the budget speeches that they have delivered, in each of those speeches they have named all the states? This is an outrageous allegation,” she said.The FM said between the Vote on Account presented in February and the budget, Maharashtra had not been named but the Union cabinet had approved a ₹76,000 crore project for building a port at Vadhavan (in Palghar district). When Trinamool MPs joined the Opposition protest and shouted that “injustice” has been done to West Bengal in the budget, Sitharaman said the state government has not implemented several central schemes and cited the example of Ayushman Bharat.

  • Parliament House: PM tried to break Constitution: Mallikarjun Kharge’s retort

    After the PM targeted Congress by raking up the anniversary of the imposition of Emergency by Indira Gandhi, Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge asked how long the PM wanted to rule by repeatedly talking about Emergency.

    “He (Modi) will say this 100 times. How long do you want to rule by talking about this,” Kharge asked. He said without declaring an “emergency”, the PM was doing many questionable things. “Modiji tried to break the Constitution. That’s why leaders of all parties have come together today and are protesting. There was a Gandhi statue here (in front of Parliament House). They are breaking all democratic norms…,” Kharge said. He alleged that the PM’s customary speech ahead of the session skipped many important issues, including the NEET paper leak, caste census, the recent train accidents and the violence in Manipur.

  • ‘This Time They Will Be Wiped Out Of Parliament’: Mallikarjun Kharge On BJP’s ‘400 Seats’ Claim |

    NEW DELHI: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday claimed that the Narendra Modi-powered BJP won’t be able to cross 400 seats in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections and it will be wiped out of Parliament. Speaking to reporters in Amethi, Kharge said, “I said – they (BJP) keep saying that they will cross 400 (LS seats), but this time they will be out of Parliament.” The Congress president hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying his guarantee is not for the farmers, labourers, Dalits, tribal and backward people of the country.

    Denying any rift with the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party, Kharge said, ‘”Everything will be alright. He has agreed and our people have agreed too. There is no problem.” Kharge on Saturday criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government and described it as a ‘curse’ for the country’s farmers.


    #WATCH | In UP’s Amethi, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge says, “I said – they (BJP) are saying that they will cross 400 (LS seats), but this time they will be out of Parliament.” https://t.co/mr3cU5wfmC — ANI (@ANI) February 19, 2024


    Interestingly, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav today made his participation in the Congress’ Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra conditional to a decision on seat sharing, saying that he will be joining it the moment the seats for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections are distributed between the two parties. . “Right now talks are going on, lists have come from their side and from ours as well, the moment the seats are distributed and decided, the Samajwadi Party will join Congress’s Nyaya Yatra,” Yadav said speaking to reporters on Monday.

    The Congress president accused the Modi government of treating farmers like enemies. Kharge asserted that only the Congress party can provide farmers with the legal right to a Minimum Support Price (MSP).

    “The Modi government is a curse for the country’s food-providing farmers. Due to the continuous false ‘Modi’s Guarantee’, first 750 farmers lost their lives, and now, yesterday, one farmer lost his life and 3 have lost their eyesight due to rubber bullets. The Modi government has treated farmers like enemies, Only Congress will give them the legal right of MSP!” he said in a post on ‘X’.

    Taking a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his poll promises, Kharge said the former is the chief of all liars as he failed to even fulfill what he had promised during his 2014 poll campaign.

    “I want to ask him what happened to the promises he made during 2014–he never fulfilled those. Modiji jhuton ka sardar hai (PM Modi is the chief of liars),” Kharge said addressing party workers at an event hosted by Maharashtra Congress. in Pune.

    The Congress national president said people keep praising PM Modi despite the latter not doing much work in the last 10 years. Kharge cautioned that if such a scenario continues, the Constitution will “vanish”.

    “PM Modi keeps lying…you all know what he did in the last ten years. Still, people praise him…if this continues, then there will soon come a day when the Constitution will vanish. We are waging a fight to protect the Constitution and have to keep fighting,” he said.

    Describing Prime Minister Modi as “individualistic,” Kharge alleged that the former does not even take his party’s name while announcing his “guarantees.” “PM Modi keeps on saying that this is Modi ki Guarantee…he never uses his party name. He is very individualistic and full of himself,” the Congress president said.

    Claiming further that the BJP had no role in the country’s freedom struggle, Kharge added, “We are fighting for the country and its founding ideals all over again. The BJP had no role or contribution to our freedom struggle. We fought for the country. ”

    Taking a dig at the Congress, PM Modi earlier this month said that even Opposition leader Mallikarjun Kharge has predicted the return of the NDA government with over 400 seats.

    PM Modi made this remark during his response to the Motion of Thanks on the President’s address in Lok Sabha.

    During a session in the Rajya Sabha on February 2, Kharge inadvertently coined what would become a rallying cry for the BJP, stating “Abki Baar, 400 Paar,” which translates to “This time, over 400 seats.”

    “Our third tenure is not far away, a maximum of 100-125 days are left. The entire nation is saying ‘abki baar, 400 paar’. Even Kharge ji said that,” PM Modi said while replying to the Motion of Thanks on the President’s address in Lok Sabha.

    He expressed confidence that the BJP would not only secure a third term but also achieve an impressive victory by winning over 370 seats individually and crossing the 400 mark with the support of the NDA bloc. Modi’s remarks were met with laughter, including his own, as he acknowledged Kharge’s statement, suggesting that even the opposition leader seemed to predict the ruling party’s electoral success.

    Modi further criticized the Congress party, implying that they had become comfortable in their role as the opposition and were preparing to occupy the spectators’ gallery in Parliament. He also took a veiled swipe at Rahul Gandhi and the Congress party’s alleged nepotism, criticizing the repeated promotion of the same leadership without success.

    PM Modi indirectly referenced Rahul Gandhi by stating that the Congress is on the brink of shutting down its shop, emphasizing that they keep trying to relaunch the same product repeatedly.