Mallikarjuna Kharge  

A loss in his home turf Kalaburagi in the Lok Sabha election and now a tough challenge to oversee the Congress campaign in the Maharashtra Assembly election, Mallikarjun Kharge is no doubt walking a tight rope.  A win will stamp his authority on Karnataka Congress, but a loss could mean the end of his political career.

A division bench of justice R Sudhakar and justice Aruna Jagadeesan of the Madras high court held that conducting Ayudha Puja or Saraswathi Puja in government offices is not a non-secular activity. Addressing an election rally, Shah also targeted Congress for not being able to repeal Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir over its long rule even as people of the country wanted to do so.Watch top news in 100 seconds only on MyNation

Before home minister Amit Shah addressed the election rally in Haryana, Karnataka Congress leader Mallikarjuna Kharge had termed defence minister Rajnath Singh's "Shastra Puja" for the Rafale jet as "Tamasha" (drama)

'The error in these 2 sentences (para 25 of the SC verdict), as explained hereinafter, appears to have occurred, perhaps, on account of a misinterpretation of a couple of sentences in a note handed over to this Hon’ble Court in a sealed cover.  The observations in the judgment have also resulted in a controversy in the public domain, and would warrant correction by this Hon’ble Court in the interest of justice,' a part of the plea by the Narendra Modi government to the Supreme Court reads

Congress sources say, the development of making Kharge the Chief Minister was initiated just a few days after Congress realised that few key decisions like transfer of IPS and IAS officers were taken without consulting deputy Chief Minister G Parameshwara or other senior Congress leaders.