Poll strategist Prashant Kishor on Tuesday declined the Congress offer to be a part of the birthday celebration and evolve its poll strategy and said more than him, the birthday celebration wants management and collective will to fix deep-rooted structural issues through transformational reforms.
Kishor was asked by using Congress president Sonia Gandhi to join the celebration and be a phase of the Empowered Action Group-2024 and take care of its election method for upcoming polls.
Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said Kishor has declined the provide and the birthday celebration appreciates his efforts and suggestions.
Kishor had made a distinct presentation earlier than top Congress leaders, which was discussed at size with the aid of senior management of the party, after which an provide was once made to him.
Within a few minutes of the Congress pronouncing that Kishor has declined the offer, he took to Twitter and stated the celebration needs a collective will to restoration deep-rooted structural problems thru reforms.
“I declined the beneficiant provide of Congress to be part of the party as section of the EAG and take duty for the elections. In my humble opinion, more than me the celebration wants leadership and collective will to restore the deep rooted structural issues thru transformational reforms,” Kishor said in a tweet.
Kishor was once eager to be a part of the Congress and had favored to do so without any expectations. He had additionally made a presentation to the party on which its top leaders deliberated upon in the course of the ultimate week.
“Following a presentation and discussions with Prashant Kishor, the Congress president constituted the Empowered Action Group-2024 and invited him to join the celebration as part of the group with defined responsibility. He declined. We admire his efforts and guidelines given to the party,” Surjewala stated on Twitter asserting that Kishor has declined the offer.
Sources said the cause for his not joining the Congress was the pact signed through his corporation I-PAC with the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) for the Telangana assembly elections and that was seen by way of the Congress leadership as battle of interest.
Kishor has been engaged by way of Mamata Banerjee’s TMC in West Bengal as nicely as Nitish Kumar’s JD-U in Bihar for election management.