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Prashant Kishor declines Sonia Gandhi's offer to join party: Congress

Sonia made an offer to Kishor to come on board as general secretary

Prashant Kishor declines Sonia Gandhi's offer to join party: Congress

Prashant Kishor. File photo



Tribune News Service

Aditi Tandon

New Delhi, April 26

The brief and second spell of romance between Prashant Kishor and the Congress ended on Tuesday with the poll strategist declining the party’s offer to accept a defined role in the organisation.

Congress general secretary and chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala announced the divorce on Twitter.

He wrote: “Following a presentation and discussions with Prashant Kishor, Congress president has constituted an Empowered Action Group 2024 and invited him to join the party as part of the group with defined responsibility. He declined. We appreciate his efforts and suggestion given to party.”

The constitution of the empowered group is not known yet.

However, sources said Gandhi made an offer to Kishor to come on board as a general secretary which he refused.

The details of the offer are yet to be fully known.

Several senior leaders of the Congress had red-flagged Kishor’s entry into the party over the strategist’s ongoing parleys with other parties including the TRS in Telangana where the Congress is a principal opposition.

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