Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge is likely to continue as the Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha as the party is yet to decide on replacing him in the Rajya Sabha. If Kharge manages two posts, it will be a reversal of Congress’s ‘one person, one post’ policy.

Sonia Gandhi called a meeting
Sonia Gandhi has called a meeting of the ‘Strategy Group’ of the Congress Parliamentary Party on December 3. Sources say that only Kharge, Jairam Ramesh and KC Venugopal have been called for the meeting from Rajya Sabha. Digvijaya Singh and P Chidambaram, who are believed to be frontrunners in the race for Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, have not been invited to the meeting.

‘One person, one post’ policy was mentioned in the election for the post of Congress President The policy of ‘one person, one post’ was mentioned in the election for the post of Congress President held in October. Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot, who was the Gandhi family’s first choice for Congress President, was not ready to give up the CM post at that time. Congress MLAs close to him said that if Gehlot played a national role, he would have to leave the post in Rajasthan and his rival Sachin Pilot would get the post, which he has objections to.

Rahul said – the party will stick to its policy
After Rahul Gandhi made it clear that the party would stick to its policy, Gehlot was dropped from the race for the post of Congress President and Kharge stepped in as the official candidate for the Congress President elections in October.

Resignation as Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha
Kharge had resigned as Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha before filing his nomination papers for Congress chief, but sources say he would continue in the role at least for the winter session of Parliament beginning on December 7. can remain in

Kharge won with the biggest margin after Sonia
On October 19, 2022, the results of the election for the post of Congress President came. In this Mallikarjun Kharge defeated Shashi Tharoor by 6825 votes. Kharge got 7897 votes, whereas Tharoor could get only 1072 votes. With the victory, Kharge became the 65th leader to become Congress President. He is the second Dalit leader after Babu Jagjivan Ram to become the Congress President. He has won the election of Congress President with the biggest margin after Sonia.