Rahul Gandhi Predicted Prashant Kishor's Refusal On Day One: Sources
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Prashant Kishor, or PK, was offered the functional responsibility of election management in the Empowered Congress Committee, say sources. He rejected the offer yesterday.
Rahul Gandhi had "on Day One" predicted that Prashant Kishor won't join the Congress and many leaders felt that the strategist wanted to "use the Congress" for leverage with other parties, party sources said today. The doubts and misgivings were mutual, countered sources close to Prashant Kishor. Following a presentation & discussions with Sh. Prashant Kishor, Congress President has constituted a Empowered Action Group 2024 & invited him to join the party as part of the group with defined responsibility. He declined. We appreciate his efforts & suggestion given to party. I declined the generous offer of #congress to join the party as part of the EAG & take responsibility for the elections.In my humble opinion, more than me the party needs leadership and collective will to fix the deep rooted structural problems through transformational reforms.
Sources say Prashant Kishor, or PK, was offered the functional responsibility of election management in the Empowered Congress Committee. He rejected the offer yesterday. PK wanted to be either political secretary to the Congress president or Vice President, the sources said.
"Rahul Gandhi on Day One itself said PK will not join, this is not the first time he was offered a spot in the party," said sources.
It was PK who sought out Congress leaders and asked for a meeting to make his presentation to the Congress, said the sources. "Various Congress leaders in the committee gave serious thought to his proposals but wanted an overview of PK," they said.
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