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Place of Birth: Karnataka, India
About Mallikarjun Kharge
- Mapanna Mallikarjun Kharge (born 21 July 1942) is an Indian politician and is a leader of the Indian National Congress party in the 16th Lok Sabha.
- He is the former Minister of Railways and Minister of Labour and Employment in the Government of India.
- Kharge is a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) and has been a Member of Parliament for Gulbarga, Karnataka since 2009.
- He is a senior Karnataka politician and was the Leader of opposition in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly.
- He was the President of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee during the 2008 Karnataka State Assembly Elections. He has won elections for a record 10 consecutive times having won the Assembly elections for an unprecedented 9 consecutive times (1972, 1979, 1983, 1985, 1989, 1994, 1999, 2004, 2008, 2009) and lost in the 2019 General Elections against Umesh Jadhav from Gulbarga.
- Kharge is considered a competent leader with a clean public image and well versed in the dynamics of politics, legislation and administration.
- Mallikarjun Kharge has been nominated as the leader of the congress party in Lok Sabha against Narendra Modi led NDA government.In the 2019 general elections he was defeated by Umesh Jadhav of BJP by a margin of 95,168 votes.
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