{"id":145530,"date":"2022-04-26T18:22:46","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T12:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caravanalive.com\/?p=145530"},"modified":"2022-04-26T18:22:46","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T12:52:46","slug":"prashant-kishor-declines-to-join-congress-amid-partys-reservations-over-his-rejuvenating-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caravanalive.com\/?p=145530","title":{"rendered":"Prashant Kishor Declines To Join Congress Amid Party&#8217;s Reservations Over His Rejuvenating Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"2a6a8c3593e6620bd92d71f585bdd19b\" data-index=\"4\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6453632170035383\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- NEW RESPONSIVE -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6453632170035383\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"2960496911\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Political strategist Prashant Kishor has turned down the Congress\u2019 offer to join the party as a member of its Empowered Action Group. Speculations were high that Kishor would join hands with the India\u2019s grand old party ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI declined the generous offer of #congress to join the party as part of the EAG &amp; 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,\u201d Kishor said in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-145531 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caravanalive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pti2182020000043a-1-1103879-1650944069.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caravanalive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pti2182020000043a-1-1103879-1650944069.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.caravanalive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pti2182020000043a-1-1103879-1650944069-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caravanalive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pti2182020000043a-1-1103879-1650944069-450x253.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala also announced Kishor\u2019s decision to decline the offer to join the party. \u201cFollowing a presentation &amp; discussions with Sh. Prashant Kishor, Congress President has constituted a Empowered Action Group 2024 &amp; invited him to join the party as part of the group with defined responsibility. He declined. We appreciate his efforts &amp; suggestion given to party,\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>The action group was constituted to address the \u201cpolitical challenges\u201d faced by Congress ahead of the 2024 national elections. Kishor was offered a slot in the group which he declined to join.<\/p>\n<p>Kishor had a series of meetings with Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and the party\u2019s top leaders, followed by several internal meetings. The strategist presented various detailed presentations related to his plans to revive Congress for the upcoming General election.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-145532 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caravanalive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/31prashant-kishor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1072\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caravanalive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/31prashant-kishor.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.caravanalive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/31prashant-kishor-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caravanalive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/31prashant-kishor-1024x915.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.caravanalive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/31prashant-kishor-768x686.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.caravanalive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/31prashant-kishor-450x402.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.caravanalive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/31prashant-kishor-672x600.jpg 672w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The decision to induct Kishor into the party was substantially opposed by a section of leaders including Mukul Wasnik, Digvijaya Singh, Jairam Ramesh and Randeep Surjewala. They showed resistance to Kishor\u2019s links with Congress\u2019 political rivals such as Andhra Pradesh chief minister Jagan Mohan Reddy and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said Kishor\u2019s rejuvenation plan for Congress was not accepted positively due to the party\u2019s long-established way of functioning. However, some of the party\u2019s heavyweights including Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Rahul Gandhi and Ambika Soni favoured his entry but failed to persuade the senior leaders.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political strategist Prashant Kishor has turned down the Congress\u2019 offer to join the party as a member of its Empowered Action Group. Speculations were high that Kishor would join hands with the India\u2019s grand old party ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. \u201cI declined the generous offer of #congress to join the party as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":145533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[{"category_id":36,"category_link":"https:\/\/www.caravanalive.com\/?cat=36","category_name":"Article"},{"category_id":1370,"category_link":"https:\/\/www.caravanalive.com\/?cat=1370","category_name":"INC"},{"category_id":156,"category_link":"https:\/\/www.caravanalive.com\/?cat=156","category_name":"India"},{"category_id":1368,"category_link":"https:\/\/www.caravanalive.com\/?cat=1368","category_name":"Politics"}],"tags":[{"tag_id":4507,"tag_link":"https:\/\/www.caravanalive.com\/?tag=2024-general-elections","tag_name":"2024 General Elections"},{"tag_id":4506,"tag_link":"https:\/\/www.caravanalive.com\/?tag=congress-entry","tag_name":"Congress Entry"},{"tag_id":4505,"tag_link":"https:\/\/www.caravanalive.com\/?tag=political-strategist","tag_name":"Political Strategist"},{"tag_id":1692,"tag_link":"https:\/\/www.caravanalive.com\/?tag=prashant-kishor","tag_name":"Prashant Kishor"}],"class_list":["post-145530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","category-inc","category-india","category-politics","tag-2024-general-elections","tag-congress-entry","tag-political-strategist","tag-prashant-kishor"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Prashant Kishor Declines To Join Congress Amid Party&#039;s Reservations Over His Rejuvenating Plans - Alive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.caravanalive.com\/?p=145530\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Prashant Kishor Declines To Join Congress Amid Party&#039;s Reservations Over His Rejuvenating Plans - Alive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Political strategist Prashant Kishor has turned down the Congress\u2019 offer to join the party as a member of its Empowered Action Group. 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