Poll strategist Prashant Kishor turns down an offer to join Congress

The proposal to rope Kishor into the Congress was enthusiastically backed by Priyanka Gandhi, but supporters within the party owing allegiance to Rahul Gandhi were less than enthusiastic about it

Poll strategist Prashant Kishor has turned down an offer to join the Congress, party leader and spokesman Randeep Singh Surjewala said hours after Kishor was invited to join the Empowered Action Group (EAG) 2024, to work as part of a team ahead of the general elections 2024. With this, one chapter in the history of India’s oldest political party appears to have ended.
 
“Following a presentation and discussions with (Prashant) Kishor, Congress president has constituted an EAG 2024 and invited him to join the party as part of the group with defined responsibility. He declined. We appreciate his efforts