4 min learnNew DelhiAug 20, 2026 11:18 AM IST
First revealed on: Aug 20, 2026 at 05:42 AM IST
On the assembly of the Congress Working Committee (CWC) on Wednesday, celebration president Mallikarjun Kharge vented out a private anguish. And he has finished that hardly ever. He instructed these current that he was “damage” that most of the CWC members didn’t brazenly come out in help of him on the ‘purification’ issue by condemning it.
Kharge was referring to a ‘purification’ ritual organised in Uttarakhand’s Haldwani after his go to some days in the past. The Congress had alleged that those that organised the ‘shuddhikaran havan’ have been linked to the BJP and stated it mirrored a casteist mindset. The BJP, then again, had distanced itself from the occasion. Kharge had raised the difficulty in Rajya Sabha as effectively. He stated he had by no means requested anybody to guard him as a result of he’s a Dalit, however the ‘purification’ occasion made him really feel humiliated.
On the CWC assembly, Kharge broached the subject. He stated he felt “damage” that every one the CWC members and particularly these “handsome folks” who get house within the media didn’t discuss it. AICC common secretary Ok C Venugopal stated the celebration did elevate the difficulty and condemned it, however Kharge’s physique language instructed, these current on the assembly stated, he was removed from satisfied.
Kharge didn’t take any names, and Congress leaders may solely speculate who all he was referring to. Actually, the Congress president — once more with out taking names — identified that some leaders are inclined to creating feedback and writing articles not in consonance with the celebration line.
Briefing the media in a while the deliberations within the CWC, Venugopal spoke in regards to the ‘purification’ row, arguing that the incident was “unacceptable” and “condemnable” and alleged that it mirrored the mindset of the BJP.
The assembly additionally noticed Kanhaiya Kumar, who’s the AICC in-charge of the NSUI, speaking in regards to the Cockroach Janta Social gathering (CJP) and telling the management that the celebration mustn’t cede political house to such teams. Sources stated many within the celebration share Kumar’s view. The celebration has up to now maintained distance from the CJP even whereas supporting the coed protests and linking it to the bigger situation of jobs.
With out naming CJP, the decision handed by the CWC famous that “sustained stress from pupil teams and the united Opposition – each inside and out of doors Parliament – compelled the Schooling Minister to resign”.
The assembly additionally noticed Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor declaring that the phrase “bullying” used within the draft decision within the context of US stress on India needs to be substituted with another phrase. Whereas Kharge and others are stated to have argued the phrase bullying was not unparliamentary, the ultimate decision merely stated, “The Congress Working Committee is deeply involved that the Modi authorities is sacrificing India’s agricultural and vitality safety, in addition to its strategic sovereignty, within the face of American stress.”
Sources stated Rahul Gandhi, within the context of the coed and youth protests and his ‘Chhatron ki Goonj’ marketing campaign, reiterated that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was now India’s previous. Sources stated he, nonetheless, didn’t agree with senior chief Manish Tewari’s evaluation that the final severe pupil motion was the anti-Mandal agitation within the Nineties, which led to 62 folks immolating themselves and greater than 100 killed in police firing. Rahul stated the ‘Chhatron ki Goonj’ marketing campaign was a really profitable pupil motion.
The CWC decision later stated the ‘Chhatron Ki Goonj’ marketing campaign was receiving an overwhelmingly optimistic response.
