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Congress top brass, including interim president Sonia Gandhi, is holding another meeting with poll strategist Prashant Kishor in New Delhi on Tuesday, reported ANI. The meetings are seen as as the grand old party’s plans to revive and plan its strategy for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. The party recently fared in all the five states that went to the polls . It lost Punjab to AAP and fared miserably in Uttar Pradesh, Manipur, Goa , Uttarakhand .
Sources said that Congress leaders, including Kamal Nath, Digvijaya Singh, Mukul Wasnik, K C Venugopal, Jairam Ramesh, A K Antony, Ambika Soni and Randeep Surjewala, are also taking part in the meeting at Sonia Gandhi’s 10 Janpath residence.
This is the third meeting between Sonia Gandhi and Prashant Kishor in the last four days amid speculation that the poll strategist may join the Congress.
The first meeting took place on April 16 while the second was held on April 18. According to the sources, two more such meetings are scheduled in the coming days.
Earlier, Venugopal had said that Kishor had given a detailed presentation with a road map for the 2024 general elections.
Answering queries, he said the role of Kishor in the Congress party will be known within a week.
Sources told ANI that Kishor, in his presentation, suggested that Congress should fight alone in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Odisha, and it should form alliances in Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Maharashtra to which Rahul Gandhi has agreed.
