Poll strategist Prashant Kishor on Thursday said that the Congress has lost more than 90 per cent elections in the last 10 years and its leadership is “not the divine right” of an individual.
This comment, by the poll strategist comes as a sharp attack yet on Rahul Gandhi, with whom he was in talks just months ago. His strike comes on top of Mamata Banerjee’s swipes at the Congress leader in Mumbai last evening.
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In a post, Prashant Kishore said, “The IDEA and SPACE that #Congress represents is vital for a strong opposition. But Congress’ leadership is not the DIVINE RIGHT of an individual especially, when the party has lost more than 90% elections in last 10 years. Let opposition leadership be decided Democratically.”
The comments are a direct hit at Rahul Gandhi, who was also the target of Mamata Banerjee’s digs yesterday.
In an interaction in Mumbai, Mamata Banerjee said, “If one does nothing and is abroad half the time, then how will one do politics? For politics there should be continuous endeavour.”
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Prashant Kishor has been dropping several truth bombs on the Gandhis since the stunning collapse of his talks with the party.
NDTV reported that the Congress may well expect to play big brother in any opposition strategy for the 2024 national election but not under its current leadership.
In October, the poll strategist had said in Goa that the BJP is not going anywhere for “many decades” and the problem with Rahul Gandhi is that he does not realise it.
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“BJP is going to be the centre of Indian polity… whether they win, whether they lose, like it was for the first 40 years for Congress. BJP is going nowhere…. That is where the problem lies with Rahul Gandhi probably. He thinks it’s just a matter of time that people will throw him away. That’s not happening,” he had said.
The ace strategist has also pointed at “deep-rooted problems and structural weaknesses” in the Congress and sought to “caution” anyone who believed that Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s move to meet the families of the farmers killed in Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh – and their widely-reported confrontation with the police – meant a “quick, spontaneous revival” of a Congress-led opposition.