Vasundhara Raje Scindia, Tirath Singh Rawat, Ram Madhav, Baijyant Jay Panda, D Purandeshwari, Rekha Verma, Varshaben Narendrabhai Doshi, Bharti Pravin Pawar, Manpreet Singh Badal, Lal Singh Arya, M. Nagaraja, Tariq Mansoor and Madhuchandra Kar to be National Vice Presidents. Vinod Tawde and Smriti Irani to be one of the National General Secretaries, Piyush Goyal to be the National Treasurer • AICC President Mallikarjun Kharge said Goa’s environment and forests must be protected, while creating jobs for youth and stopping the drug menace. Targeting the BJP government, he alleged it was “high on drugs” and said the Congress would stop the drug trade if voted to power. • Mallikarjun Kharge, reacting to youths showing him black flags, said he wears a white cap whose colour can be changed, but claimed those wearing the RSS “black topi” cannot change its colour and “it has to be burnt.” • Mallikarjun Kharge hits out at BJP leaders over the ‘shuddhikaran’ carried out in Uttarakhand after his visit, saying those who call others “paapi” should first “purify themselves”. • AICC President Mallikarjun Kharge says he has completed 56 years in politics but has “never seen such a corrupt government” as the Goa government. Kharge, 85, also took a dig at the E20 fuel policy, saying: “My engine is working so good as I am not using E20 fuel for my engine.” • AICC President Mallikarjun Kharge says Congress played a major role in Goa’s liberation. Recalling the liberation movement, Kharge said he was in matriculation at the time and had participated in protests for Goa’s liberation. He alleged that 10 of Goa’s 12 ministers are former Congress leaders who defected to other parties and urged voters: “Don’t vote for these defectors.” • Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge urged party workers to stay united and strengthen the organisation at the booth level, saying, “If there is unity, everything can happen.”
Vasundhara Raje Scindia, Tirath Singh Rawat, Ram Madhav, Baijyant Jay Panda, D Purandeshwari, Rekha Verma, Varshaben Narendrabhai Doshi, Bharti Pravin Pawar, Manpreet Singh Badal, Lal Singh Arya, M. Nagaraja, Tariq Mansoor and Madhuchandra Kar to be National Vice Presidents. Vinod Tawde and Smriti Irani to be one of the National General Secretaries, Piyush Goyal to be the National Treasurer • AICC President Mallikarjun Kharge said Goa’s environment and forests must be protected, while creating jobs for youth and stopping the drug menace. Targeting the BJP government, he alleged it was “high on drugs” and said the Congress would stop the drug trade if voted to power. • Mallikarjun Kharge, reacting to youths showing him black flags, said he wears a white cap whose colour can be changed, but claimed those wearing the RSS “black topi” cannot change its colour and “it has to be burnt.” • Mallikarjun Kharge hits out at BJP leaders over the ‘shuddhikaran’ carried out in Uttarakhand after his visit, saying those who call others “paapi” should first “purify themselves”. • AICC President Mallikarjun Kharge says he has completed 56 years in politics but has “never seen such a corrupt government” as the Goa government. Kharge, 85, also took a dig at the E20 fuel policy, saying: “My engine is working so good as I am not using E20 fuel for my engine.” • AICC President Mallikarjun Kharge says Congress played a major role in Goa’s liberation. Recalling the liberation movement, Kharge said he was in matriculation at the time and had participated in protests for Goa’s liberation. He alleged that 10 of Goa’s 12 ministers are former Congress leaders who defected to other parties and urged voters: “Don’t vote for these defectors.” • Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge urged party workers to stay united and strengthen the organisation at the booth level, saying, “If there is unity, everything can happen.”