Who is the present President of the Congress Party?

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Answer 1

The correct answer is Mallikarjun Kharge

Key Points

Mallikarjun Kharge is the present President of the Congress Party.
Mallikarjun Kharge has become the Indian National Congress' first non-Gandhi president in 24 years.
The 80-year-old leader succeeds Sonia Gandhi at the grand old party's highest office.
Kharge defeated Member of Parliament from Thiruvananthapuram Shashi Tharoor in the October 17 Congress' Presidential polls, which saw over 9,500 delegates across the country voting.
A leader with more than 50 years of experience in politics, he is also the second AICC President from Karnataka after S Nijalingappa and also second Dalit leader after Jagjivan Ram to hold the post.
Kharge was elected MLA nine times in a row, seeing a steady rise in his career graph from humble beginnings as a union leader in his home district of Gulbarga (renamed as Kalaburagi).
He joined the party in 1969 and became President of the Gulbarga City Congress Committee.