Congress’ “Remarks By Consultants” Jibe After Prashant Kishor’s Poll Advice

The Congress has dismissed the most recent tranche of recommendation and criticism from ballot strategist Prashant Kishor, saying “consultants’ remarks” don’t require any remark. Mr Kishor, in an exhaustive interview with the Press Belief of India, had given a  guidelines for the celebration and its senior chief Rahul Gandhi yesterday, which additionally included the recommendation that he step apart if the celebration doesn’t carry out properly.

Requested about Mr Kishor’s remarks at this time, Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate mentioned, “I don’t reply on remarks by consultants. Speak about political folks, what’s there to reply on consultants?”

In an interplay with PTI, Mr Kishor had mentioned Mr Gandhi, for all sensible functions, has been operating the celebration for a decade and has been unable to ship or step apart.

“When you find yourself doing the identical work for the final 10 years with none success, there isn’t any hurt in taking a break,’ Mr Kishor had mentioned. “You must permit another person to do it for 5 years. Your mom did it,” he mentioned, pointing to the time when Sonia Gandhi, after the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, had left celebration issues to PV Narasimha Rao in 1991.

The ballot strategist, seen as a stern critic of the Congress, mentioned Mr Gandhi’s apply of operating the present is “additionally anti-democratic”. Mr Kishor, who crafted the profitable marketing campaign led by Amarinder Singh in 2017, had additionally give you a revival plan for the Congress, however walked out as a consequence of disagreements with celebration leaders over its execution.

After a decade of the UPA rule, the Congress has been tailspin, with the celebration’s seats, voteshare nationally, and presence and power in states, dwindling quick.

After its victory in Karnataka final yr, Mr Kishor had suggested the Congress in opposition to “mistaking the meeting ballot final result for a touch of what lies in retailer in Lok Sabha polls”.

Mr Kishor formally exited as a ballot strategist after the Bengal meeting election in 2021 that noticed his consumer Mamata Banerjee obtain her best-ever efficiency.