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Meanwhile, Shashi Tharoor’s team alleged “extremely serious irregularities” in the election process.

Tharoor also said that state party chiefs had been “unavailable” during his campaign for the internal polls in various states.

Kharge, 80, had on Friday filed his nomination paper for the top post of Congress.

For Mallikarjun Kharge’s nomination, several party leaders including Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Digvijaya Singh, Prithviraj Chavan, AK Antony, AM Singhvi and Ajay Maken became the proposers.

Summons to Mallikarjun Kharge sparked off a war of words between Congress and BJP leaders both inside and outside Parliament.

Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge said, “They (BJP) are also doing this for the Presidential polls.”

The BJP has bestowed upon Rajnath Singh to reach out to the Opposition parties to build a consensus.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge and Pawar to coordinate and convene another meeting of the Opposition parties in a week.