For the past several days, there was a noise that Congress might get Prashant Kishor, but on Tuesday it was reported that the path of both would not be the same. First Congress leader Randeep Surjewala told that Prashant Kishor has not accepted the offer to join Congress, then after some time PK’s tweet himself came. Not only did he talk about rejecting the offer of the Congress, along with this he also gave an important message to the party that what is necessary for it. Prashant Kishor tweeted, ‘I have rejected the offer of Congress, in which I was asked to be part of the Empowered Action Group and take charge of the elections.’
In these words, he told what responsibility he was getting from the Congress and he has rejected it. What he wrote after that is the most important. Suggesting the Congress, he wrote, ‘I am of the opinion that the Congress needs more leadership and collective will than me so that systemic changes can be made by removing the deep-rooted flaws in the organization.’ In this way, Prashant Kishor has highlighted two fundamental problems of Congress in one line and also put the way of change in front of it. Although Congress leaders themselves have been acknowledging these shortcomings, there has been a lingering hesitation about change.
PK has been effective for big faces from Modi to Mamta
Prashant Kishor’s indication was clear that without leadership, he too is not in a position to do much for the Congress. Leadership is needed more than me that by saying that he has also pointed it out. In fact, if we look at the track record of Prashant Kishor, all the people he has worked for, from PM Narendra Modi, Nitish Kumar, Captain Amarinder Singh, Jagan Mohan Reddy to Mamta Banerjee, have all been big faces in their state. Prashant Kishor had done the work of preparing a narrative for these leaders, but it cannot be denied that these leaders also had their own image.
2017 is example, PK could not help Congress
We can also see an example regarding the problem of Congress. In the 2017 UP assembly elections also, Congress had taken the services of PK, but it could not succeed and after fighting on 100 seats with the SP, it could get only 7 seats. It is clear that even though PK had tried to give Narratives like discussion on cot, Brahmin face to Congress, but due to lack of leadership, struggle in collective leadership and lack of mobilization of workers, everything fell apart. In such a situation, PK’s advice seems to be effective that Congress needs leadership and collective will more than him.