congress: Caution, scepticism in Congress as leadership pushes for Prashant Kishor

While the Congress leadership, especially the Gandhi-Vadra base, is enthusiastically discussing election strategist Prashant Kishor’s proposal for a Congress organizational revival and electoral reboot, and his desire to join the party, there has been a constant ‘outside’ of many in the party. There are signs to be suspicious about. Build-up’ to give election advisor a bigger projection from the party.

Whispers have started in Congress circles, questioning the electoral/organizational credentials of several leaders in the Sonia Gandhi-selected panel, who were examining Kishor’s proposals and making suggestions, even That even the bloc of change-seekers seems to be dim about the practice and they may meet soon. While the Gandhi-Vadra axis is all set to accept Kishor into the party, many leaders appear displeased at any rank of leadership for him.

Meanwhile, senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh, who was part of the Congress panel looking into the Kishor proposals, said he found the proposals impressive, but nothing different. When ET asked how he got PK’s offers, Singh said, “He (Kishor) made some impressive proposals and articulated them well, though nothing new or out of the box. The leadership is open-minded to them.” is considering.”

Singh said there is “no opposition from within the party” to Kishor or his proposals, adding that the “political and ideological stability” of the election strategist is something that needs to be established. “From what I know about him (PK), he has worked with many different political parties in the past, which means that till now it was not possible to assess the political and ideological stability in his actions. But, I am glad that now he has expressed his desire to work with the Congress and follow the Nehruvian ideology. Of course, the Congress President has to decide on his entry into the party.”

On the macro leadership structure of the Congress, Singh said it would be decided by none other than the Congress constitution, the conscience of the collective leadership and the organizational elections of the Congress.

signs of displeasure

The camp of those who want a change in Congress seems to be angry with the program of PK. “The leadership is clearly outsourcing the party to a PR consultant.

Recently after Navjot Singh Sidhu, now Prashant Kishor has mesmerized the leadership. We will soon formulate our collective approach on the matter,” said one of the change seekers.

Party circles pointed out that while some of the panels chosen by Gandhi have conducted election disasters as recently as AICC in-charge, with few exceptions, some of them never contested or every time they contested. So some of them accomplished that. , or are on the verge of completing a hat-trick defeat from their respective home constituencies. Question is also raised as to why LS MPs of Congress were ignored in favor of RS MPs in the panel.

Originally published at Pen 18