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The governance provided by the Congress was satisfactory and its leaders had mass appeal, still the party crashed so badly in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.
The Prime Minister making himself the star of the show is unprecedented only in that it is for the first time in Independent India that a new Parliament building is being inaugurated
Gandhi, who faced a volley of questions from the media on Singh's remarks on surgical strikes and the Pulwama terror attack, said he and the party completely disagreed with his statement.
Kharge's resignation, which the 80-year-old leader sent to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, is in line with the party's declared 'One person, One post' principle that was announced at the Udaipur 'Chintan Shivir' in May.
Kharge is one of the most experienced persons in the party and is a Dalit leader too, said Manish Tewari, who is one of the proposers for Kharge's candidature.
The Thiruvananthapuram MP submitted his papers to the party's central election authority chairman Madhusudan Mistry at his office at the AICC headquarters.
Both candidates to file nomination papers tomorrow | Polling to take place on October 17, result on 19.
AICC general secretary (organisation) K C Venugopal was also in the same flight from Kerala to Delhi.
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