Prashant Kishor faces some uneasy questions from congressmen

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Published on: 10 March 2016 8:46 AM GMT
Prashant Kishor faces some uneasy questions from congressmen
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Lucknow: It was straight but ticklish- why should Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi limit themselves to Rae Bareli and Amethi ? Further more -why do senior leaders not visit hinterland if the party has a national perspective ?

These are some of the most innocuous queries from the middle rung party cadre of Congress gathered here to receive a 'pep talk' from new poster boy of social media Prashant Kishor, recently hired by the Congress to boost its prospects in coming Uttar Pradesh assembly polls in 2017.

It was during the brain storming session at state party headquarters where PK ( nicknamed by some Congressmen owing to his outsider status) had his quota of questions from the district and city chiefs of the party along with UPCC president Nirmal Khatri ,in charge of UP affairs Madhusudan Mistri and three secretary-level officer bearers.

The whole excercise, indeed, looks ironical that a beleaguered Congress is looking up to a non-political person to get some elixir to bail itself out in Uttar Pradesh where it has been out of power since last 27 years.

Prashant Kishor has been roped in by the Congress to make strategy by way of effectively using social media like he successfully did in 2014 General Elections and later in Bihar assembly polls.

The session was rather long where Prashant Kishor, in his first interaction with the state cadre, had noted down the suggestions, worries, problems and aspirations of the demoralised Congressmen.

Congress could garner 28 out of a total of 403 assembly seats in 2012 assembly polls with vote percentage of 11.65 as compared to over 29 per cent of Samajwadi Party, 25 per cent of Bahujan Samaj Party and 15 per cent of Bharatiya Janata Party.

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