‘Solillada Saradara’: 10 things to know about new Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge | India News
In the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, he bucked the Narendra Modi wave that swept Karnataka, particularly the Hyderabad-Karnataka region, and won from Gulbarga with a margin of over 74,000 votes.
A nine-time MLA, Gurmitkal assembly constituency was his home turf before he set his sights in 2009 on national politics. He has been a two-time MP from Gulbarga parliamentary segment.
However, in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the veteran leader was defeated by BJP’s Umesh Jadhav in Gulbarga by a margin of 95,452 votes.
For Kharge, popularly known as “Solillada Saradara”, (a leader without defeat), it was the first electoral loss in his political career. However, he took it in his stride and continued to move on.
A nine-time MLA, Gurmitkal assembly constituency was his home turf before he set his sights in 2009 on national politics. He has been a two-time MP from Gulbarga parliamentary segment.
However, in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the veteran leader was defeated by BJP’s Umesh Jadhav in Gulbarga by a margin of 95,452 votes.
For Kharge, popularly known as “Solillada Saradara”, (a leader without defeat), it was the first electoral loss in his political career. However, he took it in his stride and continued to move on.
