No person is bigger than the party, but the Congress always keeps its doors and windows open, spokesperson Pawan Khera said on Wednesday as the break-up between election strategist Prashant Kishor and the grand old party continued to make headlines.
“The doors and windows of Congress are always open. If you suggest, it will be open to you too,” Mr Khera told reporters when asked whether Mr Kishor’s possible entry into the Congress was a closed chapter.
While Congress officially tried to downplay it Electoral strategist refuses to join partySeveral fresh details were leaked by Congress functionaries, which could have led to the break-up.
At first, a Congress functionary claimed that Mr. Kishor’s demand that he report only to the Congress president was a major stumbling block. Although party leaders were impressed With your data about voting and voters’ preference At both levels, his insistence on having a team of 5,000 support staff who would only report to him and key negotiations with potential collaborators were also troubling.
The leader claimed that the strategist advised that the party should not seek alliances with parties such as the Rashtriya Janata Dal, Samajwadi Party, Shiv Sena and NCP, but suggested not to fight against other regional players such as the Trinamool, with whom they have The firm is a tie-up of the Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC).
So far, Mr Kishor has made no statement other than a tweet on Tuesday in which he said that “more than him, the Congress needs leadership and the will to make transformative reforms to fix deep-rooted problems”.