Prashant Kishor meets Sonia for second time, discusses blueprint for Assembly polls
Amid rumours of election strategist Prashant Kishor joining the Congress, he met party chief Sonia Gandhi on Monday for the second time in three days, to discuss about a planning session for the next round of Assembly polls.
Earlier, on Saturday, Kishor had given a detailed presentation on “Mission 2024” before a group of Congress leaders.
According to a PTI report, the agenda of the second meeting was to discuss the plans for the Assembly polls in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh, which are due later this year and also the polls of Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, which will take place next year.
Before Kishor’s meeting with Sonia on Monday, she had a meeting at 10, Janpath, with a group of Congress leaders, who have been tasked with evaluating the “Mission 2024” plan.
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Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Randeep Singh Surjewala, KC Venugopal and Ambika Soni were some of the members who attended Sonia’s meeting. The group is expected to provide a report on the roadmap for the 2024 General elections.
The Congress has asked for the rest of this month to respond to Kishor’s proposal, which incorporates a plan for the party to contest 370 seats in the next general elections and for forming strategic alliances in certain states.
Kishor has suggested that the Congress should go solo for the polls in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Odisha, and form alliances in Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Maharashtra, to which Rahul Gandhi has given his nod, according to reports.
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Kishor faced criticism from a section of the Congress party for his organization IPAC’s help in West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana to help the regional leaders namely Mamata Banerjee, Jagan Mohan Reddy and K Chandrasekhar Rao win in the Assembly polls, pushing Congress behind in those states.
(With inputs from Agencies)
