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NEW DELHI: Congress president Sonia Gandhi has shaped a three-member committee comprising birthday celebration veterans AK Antony, Ambika Soni and Mallikarjun Kharge to inspect election strategist Prashant Kishor’s technique paper for contesting the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The committee has been requested to publish its file in every week.
Kishor had made a three-hour presentation at Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s place of dwelling on April 16. It used to be attended through former Congress president Rahul Gandhi, Basic secretary Priyanka Gandhi, and senior leaders AK Antony, Ambika Soni, Mallikarjun Kharge, Digvijay Singh, Mukul Wasnik, KC Venugopal, Jairam Ramesh and Ajay Maken, but even so the Congress president.
Within the presentation, Kishor defined the errors the birthday celebration has been making and introduced an alternate plan that might assist the birthday celebration be triumphant on the hustings.
Amongst his tips used to be to center of attention birthday celebration sources on winnable seats, which he stated have been simplest 370 out of Lok Sabha’s overall energy of 543. He stated Congress is a smart product which lacks right kind advertising and marketing. He used to be in particular important of the birthday celebration’s media technique.
He brushed apart the emerging communal polarization as a trifling factor and stated it might be countered through galvanizing and empowering staff on the sales space degree. He stated the birthday celebration must combat by itself in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, and input into alliance in states like Andhra, Telangana, West Bengal and Maharashtra.
After the presentation, Sonia requested the leaders about their opinion at the presentation. Assets stated Digvijay Singh and AK Antony gave the impression no longer very inspired through the proposal. Digvijay stated that is precisely what the birthday celebration had stated after its closing two chintan shivirs at Pachmarhi and Shimla. Antony stated lots of the issues discussed within the proposal have been very similar to the ones he had discussed in his file after the birthday celebration’s loss in 2014.
The reaction of others used to be muted. However Jairam Ramesh used to be filled with reward for the guidelines introduced through Kishor and stated they have been value attempting.
Kishor confronted a clumsy second all the way through the assembly. When he referred to media stories about his appointment as Congress common secretary, and stated he isn’t hankering after any birthday celebration place, Kharge lower him off and stated “PK, did not you come back to me asking me to suggest you to be made Congress vice-president.”
After the assembly Congress leaders stated it used to be now positive that Kishor would sign up for the birthday celebration. He would possibly, then again, no longer get the quantity two slot within the birthday celebration. Going through what Kharge stated all the way through the assembly and what key birthday celebration functionaries really feel, Kishor were bargaining for a submit subsequent to simply the Congress president. He’s reportedly all for reporting simplest to the Congress president.
Congress assets stated some leaders have been of the view that sooner than giving him complete accountability of strategizing the 2024 common elections, he must be requested to end up the efficacy of his plan within the approaching state elections.
“Elections are due in over a dozen states sooner than the 2024 Lok Sabha election. Congress holds a bit of over 400 seats out of the 1500 plus seats in those states. Let him first assist the birthday celebration toughen its tally in those states sooner than taking a large chew,” stated a senior Congress chief.
Kishor has already introduced that he can be a part of a political birthday celebration through Would possibly 2, when his sabbatical ends.