New Delhi: Priyanka Gandhi on Friday admitted that there was a big possibility of Poll Strategist Prashant Kishor joining the Congress party last year. She said further that due to some reasons โit didnโt work out,โ and she denied that it had anything to do with bringing an outsider into the party.
โI think it did not work out for multiple reasons. Some on his part, some on our part. I wouldnโt want to get into the details of that. Broadly there was an inability to agree on certain issues, which sort of impeded the discussion from moving forward,โ Priyanka Gandhi said.
Emphatically denying that it had anything to do with a reluctance to bring an outsider into the Congress, she countered, โHad there been that reluctance, there wouldnโt have been so many discussionsโ.
The possibility of Prashant Kishor โ aka โPKโ โ joining the Congress was real, admitted Priyanka Gandhi. โAt some point yes. It did not work out.โ
The Poll Strategist had several rounds of talks with the Congress leaders, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi, and Sonia Gandhi last year. The images of the Prashant Kishor going to Rahul Gandhiโs home sparked wild speculation. His entry into the Congress was said to be all but done.
Reports of a breakdown in negotiations emerged alongside a series of pungent attacks by Prashant Kishor, who publicly said it was not the โdivine right of any individualโ to lead the Congress, โespecially when the party has lost more than 90 percent of the elections in the last 10 years.โ
Prashant has made it clear that he believes that the Congress party has a role to be played in opposition ahead of the 2024 national election, but not under the current leadership.
His collaboration with the Congress for the 2017 UP polls had flopped miserably; the BJP swept to power, decimating the Akhilesh Yadav-Congress alliance. It was not all bad โ the Congress did win in Punjab, where Amarinder Singh had PKโs help.
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