From Pawar to Gandhis: How to read Prashant Kishor's meetings Prashant Kishor has met leaders such as veteran NCP chief Sharad Pawar, Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh and the powerful siblings Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. The buzz is that
Prashant Kishor could be looking for a formula to defeat the BJP in 2024 polls
....... Prashant Kishor met Rahul Gandhi at his residence in New Delhi on Tuesday setting off the buzz in the political circles. The meeting was attended by Congress general secretaries Priyanka Gandhi, KC Venugopal and Harish Rawat. Though Prashant Kishor refused to divulge any meaning information saying it was just a “courtesy meeting” and that nothing more should be read into it. But that courtesy call lasted about four hours. ........ Sources said Prashant Kishor gave a detailed presentation to the Gandhis of his plan, in which Odisha Chief Minister and Biju Janata Dal leader Naveen Patnaik emerged as a key figure. ......... Prashant Kishor is to play a big role in reviving the Congress party to prop it up as a real challenger to the BJP in 2024 Lok Sabha election. ....... a day after that meeting, Sharad Pawar hosted a meeting of the leaders from eight Opposition parties. Those invited included leaders from the Trinamool Congress, the Samajwadi Party, the Aam Aadmi Party, the Rashtriya Lok Dal and the Left Front. They met at Sharad Pawar’s residence in Delhi. ....... Prashant Kishor’s Indian Political Action Committee (IPAC) has begun collecting data for the Punjab poll campaign for next year’s assembly election. Prashant Kishor was recently appointed as the principal advisor by Captain Amarinder Singh. ........With Mamata Banerjee taking the TMC to a bigger than the past electoral victories in West Bengal elections, Prashant Kishor saw his reputation surge to a new level.
......... Prashant Kishor emerged on the national scene as a poll strategist in 2014, when he was hailed as the man who built the Narendra Modi wave.
