Want election through ballot paper: Kharge
Addressing the gathering at Samvidhan Rakshak Abhiyaan function , the Congress chief said, “We don’t want elections through EVMs. We want elections through ballot paper.”
Addressing the gathering at Samvidhan Rakshak Abhiyaan function , the Congress chief said, “We don’t want elections through EVMs. We want elections through ballot paper.”
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday met party president Mallikarjun Kharge after her victory in the Kerala’s Wayanad Lok Sabha by-election.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday wrote to President Droupadi Murmu over the situation in Manipur, alleging the BJP-led government in Manipur and the Centre have failed in restoring peace and normalcy, and urged her intervention into the matter.
Kharge, who is also the Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, along with Rahul and senior party leaders paid tribute to the former prime minister at her portrait at the Central Hall of the Samvidhan Sadan.
The poll panel on Saturday wrote to BJP president J P Nadda and Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge seeking their comments over the matter by 1 pm on Monday.
In a separate letter issued to Nadda and Kharge, the poll panel recalled its 22nd May advisory directing the BJP, Congress and their star campaigners to refrain from making any statement which is prohibited in Clause (1) of general conduct of MCC.
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge launched a frontal attack on the BJP as he campaigned for the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) at Akkalkot, near Solapur, in Maharashtra on Wednesday.
The UP chief minister was reacting to the Congress president’s personal remarks against him during an election rally in Achalpur, Maharashtra.
Kharge had said in Jharkhand recently that many sadhus have now become politicians and they are spreading hatred in the society by wearing saffron clothes and trying to divide people.
"BJP gives inciting speeches and speaks lies in order to divert people's attention from core issues," he alleged at a press conference in Nagpur.