To begin with, after months of Consultation, political campaigner Prashant Kishor is anticipated to join the Congress soon. On Saturday, Kishor made a detailed dispensing for the 2024 Lok Sabha referendum to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and other senior leaders.
However, Kishor’s Consultation with Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi in Delhi has created a buzz in Telangana politics. This sudden conference has fuelled a discourse in political circles over its likely impact on the affairs of state and possible commutes in political equations in the run-up to 2023 Assembly polls.
Why does Kishor want to join Congress?
Specifically, this is because the regnant Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) has engaged the services of Prashant Kishor only recently, and his team is currently engaged in supervising surveys for TRS for the upcoming Assembly elections. The Congress is the principal antithesis of the TRS in the state and whether the TRS can go ahead with Kishor.
According to sources, Kishor stressed that Congress should centralize 370 to 400 Lok Sabha seats, and the rest should leave for concordat partners. AICC General secretary K.C. Venugopal said a conference would be formed to look at his recommendations and ideas and how to carry them forward.
Changes Kishor wants to bring to Congress.
Finally, Kishor’s suggestions to Sonia and Rahul in the meeting that the Congress must target up to 400 seats out of 543 for 2024 Lok Sabha polls and work on alliances wherever the party is weak have further charged up conjecture of feasible TRS-Congress association at least for 2024 Lok Sabha polls, if not 2023 Assembly polls.
Moreover, analysts expect extensive changes in Telangana’s political landscape in the event of a TRS-Congress concordat as several leaders in both the TRS and the Congress who fail to secure party permits to meet elections may shift to the BJP for their political subsequent.
Meanwhile, there have been many conversations that Kishor will look after the approaching Gujarat elections in the last couple of weeks. One of the authoritative Patel leaders, Naresh Patel, was also supposed to be inducted into the party. Insiders claim that if the 2024 plan gets approved, Kishor may also aid the party in Gujarat.
