Amid the rising buzz over the Congress prepared to deliver Prashant Kishor on board in its revival bid forward of 2024 Lok Sabha elections, The Indian Express stories that the ballot strategist had proposed to the get together management final yr {that a} non-Gandhi Congress president would have a “high” affect though the “visibility” of such an possibility is “difficult”.
The suggestion was reportedly a part of a 85-page illustration doing rounds on social media amid a renewed spherical of talks between Kishor and the Congress management on a revival roadmap for the get together.
Kishor, nonetheless, informed The Indian Express that it was n outdated/pretend presentation (and) has nothing to do with the continued dialogue.”
The Congress formally didn’t touch upon it. A celebration chief, on situation of anonymity, stated: “We have not seen any such presentation.” Another chief stated “it can either be old or fake, it cannot be both.”
The purported presentation by Kishor means that the get together management ought to take 5 “strategic decisions”: repair the management challenge; remedy the alliance conundrum; reclaim the get together’s founding tenets; create a military of grassroots leaders and foot-soldiers; and an ecosystem of supportive media and digital propagation.
A senior chief informed The Indian Express that this was a presentation Kishor had made to the Congress management final yr and his present one is a model of this “with many additions and some deletions”. Sources stated it doesn’t have “anything like a non-Gandhi as party president.”
On the opposite hand, a number of different Congress leaders stated that Kishor had, in personal conversations, pitched the concept of a non-Gandhi as Congress president and Rahul Gandhi as chief of the get together in Lok Sabha.
In the latest days, Kishor has held a collection of conferences with Congress president Sonia Gandhi and different prime get together leaders, giving shows on methods to deliver the get together out of the disaster amid the unabated ballot debacles and infightings in its state items, whereas specializing in resolving the difficulty of management vacuum.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”