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Kharge sensed the game and played safe by saying that the meeting agenda was not to choose a PM candidate but to firm up an anti-BJP alliance and that he was not into playing the Dalit card..
Many leaders privately wondered later whether the move was meant to show Kharge's acceptability as bloc's PM face or Rahul Gandhi's unacceptability.PTIAfter certain quarters publicised the proposal on Kharge, he discounted it at a media briefing: "Our first priority is to win..
New Delhi: The closed-door meeting of 28 INDIA bloc parties here on Tuesday showcased internal fault lines, checkmating plots and pinpricks for Congress from turf rivals-allies after its recent defeat to BJP in three heartland states, it is learnt..
According to some participants, the most dramatic move that left Congress representatives in discomfort and other parties to smell a rat was AITC chief Mamata Banerjee's suggestion of naming Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge as the 'Dalit PM candidate' of the bloc..
Stalin, Left leaders and some others said the Congress leadership should draw lessons from the party's defeat in the assembly polls and reminded how it had cancelled a scheduled INDIA rally in Bhopal and how Congress refused to accommodate bloc constituents in MP, Rajasthan and Telangana..
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