Known election strategist Prashant Kishor, who is preparing Punjab Congress for 2017 State Assembly polls, on Wednesday took to Twitter to deny reports of his parting ways with the Congress owing to alleged growing interference by senior party leaders, including State party chief Capt Amarinder Singh, in his work.
His organisation, I-PAC, on Wednesday tweeted that the master election strategist Prashant Kishor will continue to work with Congress till Uttar Pradesh and Punjab polls.
“Question of quitting is nothing but wild speculation. We are deeply honoured by the responsibility and totally committed to the ,” read the tweet by I-PAC (@IndianPAC).
At the same time, Capt Amarinder also denied reports of a rift with Kishor.
“100 per cent. Things are 100 per cent fine. We’ve been together for the whole of yesterday, been together whole of this morning. We have no differences whatsoever,” said Capt Amarinder when asked whether all is well between him and Kishor in the light of reports of a rift between them.
Kishor, who had successfully designed Narendra Modi’s lok Sabha poll campaign and Nitish Kumar’s 2015 Bihar Assembly polls campaign, was recently roped in by Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi to recreate the same magic for the party in next year’s Punjab and Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.
However, it was reported that all is not well between Kishor and some Congress leaders leaders of UP and Punjab.
There are reports that Kishor, who is now managing the election campaign of Capt Amarinder ahead Assembly polls next year, has been facing opposition from some sections of the grand old party over his style of functioning.
Kishor, who has become a phenomenon in the Indian political arena, had reportedly made it clear that if there is interference in his style of working, he would quit.
Congress is out of power in Punjab for the past nine years and is making strenuous efforts to oust the SAD-BJP combine from power at a time when AAP has emerged as a significant player in the State.