Reacting to the appointment of Subhankar Sarkar as the new Bengal Congress president, the party's former state chief, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, said that anyone can become the president, and the party high command, Mallikarjun Kharge, has the right to decide on such things.
A day after getting appointed as West Bengal Congress President, Subhankar Sarkar said that he wanted to take forward the programmes of the Congress by keeping all the party workers together.
"Congress President has appointed M.K. Bhardwaj and Bhanu Mahajan as Acting Working Presidents of the Jammu & Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee, with immediate effect," an official statement of the party said.
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge stated on Saturday that priority of Congress is to restore statehood of Jammu and Kashmir, adding that the state has never been changed to Union Territory before.
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge approved the proposal of the formation of the Pradesh Election Committee, Campaign Committee, and Manifesto Committee of the Jharkhand Pradesh Congress Committee, an official statement said.
Karnataka Minister Priyank Kharge and US Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti discussed enhancing trade relations between Karnataka and the United States.
As polling for assembly elections are approaching Haryana, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday, in a satirical video, took a jibe at the BJP-led Haryana Government and said that the state government has been sleeping for 10 years.
Karnataka IT Minister Priyank Kharge met with Eric Garcetti, the United States Ambassador to India, on Thursday in the national capital and requested the establishment of a US Consulate in Bengaluru.
On September 17, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, calling for strict action against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders who made controversial remarks about Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi.
BJP leader Ravneet Singh Bittu on Thursday said that he does not hold any regret and won't apologise for calling Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi a "number 1 terrorist". He added that the Gandhi family burnt Punjab and consequently the state lost generations of lives.