A “hurt” Mallikarjun Kharge made a complaint to senior Congress leaders at the party’s working committee meet in the Capital on Wednesday.
The Congress chief also raised the issue in Parliament on Thursday, the last day of the Monsoon Session. “I do not want to turn this into a political issue. I have the strength to fight, and I do fight. But in Haldwani, the purification of the stage made me feel the sting of untouchability and humiliated me. Gandhi asked the party’s social media head, Supriya Shrinate, to prepare regular reports on how many leaders were or were not amplifying the party’s official line on issues.
Earlier reporting noted: Rahul Gandhi wants monitoring of colleagues after Kharge laments their silence on Haldwani ‘purification ritual’ Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi’s grouse with colleagues for not taking up social justice issues strongly enough was reflected at the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting on Wednesday (August 20, 2026).
The Congress president told the party leaders present at the meet that he was “hurt” that many of the CWC members did not openly come out in support of him on the ‘purification’ issue by condemning it, sources told NDTV. his body language, according to sources, suggested that he was upset by the lack of support from some senior leaders over the issue While Kharge did not name any particular leaders. Congress Working Committee meeting on Wednesday The Congress had alleged that those who performed the “purification” ritual had links to the BJP and RSS, claiming that it exposed their “anti-Dalit mindset”. I have never told anyone that I am Dalit – protect me – nor have I begged in front of anyone. My demand is that a case should be registered under the Untouchability Act against those who purified the stage in Haldwani, and they should be arrested and sent to jail,” he said in Parliament. Earlier reporting noted: When party president Mallikarjun Kharge expressed his anguish that not many colleagues had publicly raised the issue of the “purification ritual” conducted at Uttarakhand’s Haldwani , where the Congress chief had addressed a public meeting, Mr. Venugopal did tell the Congress chief that the party had strongly condemned the incident, but he didn’t seem “fully convinced,” claimed party sources.
Earlier reporting noted: Congress general secretary (organisation) K.C.
