WINTER SESSION WILL BE A TEST FOR KHARGE

Challenges will continue to grow, as it won’t be easy for Mallikarjun Kharge to strike a balance between three power centres in the party.

- AJIT MAINDOLA

The real challenges for Mallikarjun Kharge, who became the first non-Gandhi Congress President in 24 years, will actually begin from the upcoming winter session of Parliament. After this, the challenges will continue to grow, as it won’t be easy for him to strike a balance between three power centres in the party.

Kharge has convened the first meeting of the steering committee to prepare strategy ahead of the winter session which will commence from 7 December. The meeting will take a call on holding the much-awaited Congress Plenary. The plenary alone will give final shape to organisational structure. The steering committee is likely to discuss the second part of Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra as well. The date for the commencement of the second part of the yatra may be discussed, as the first part would end in February.

The strategy to oppose the policies of the Modi government in Parliament would also be discussed. After this meeting, Kharge will have a separate session with the Congress Parliamentary Party leaders. It will be for the first time that Rahul Gandhi will neither attend the meeting nor Parliament session. So, Kharge will be responsible for everything from coordinating with the opposition parties to targeting the government over various policies.