Congress high command reportedly clipped the wings of the poll strategist Prashant Kishor aka ‘PK’ at least for the time being in Uttar Pradesh. Sources also confirms that now Priyanka Gandhi will monitor the campaign and is also likely to actively lead the Party’s fight for a comeback here in Uttar Pradesh.
“No, we had not asked PK to stop work in Uttar Pradesh but had just directed him to first concentrate on Punjab election”, confirmed a senior Congress leader. He claimed PK’s help will be once again taken in UP also. The leader made above claims soon after the meeting of senior leaders of the Party on ‘UP’s election strategy’ was over in New Delhi on Friday afternoon. The meeting was attended by both Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi, AICC general secretary, Gulam Nabi Azad, incharge of Party affairs here in UP, state president Raj Babbar, along with senior leaders like Sanjay Singh, Pramod Tewari, RPN Sigh etc.
However, sources confirmed that after receiving several complaints from senior leaders of UP and also finding that many more leaders, like Congress former state president Rita Bahuguna Joshi, may also quit in the coming days due to over aggressiveness of PK, so the high command finally clipped his wings asking him to concentrate on Punjab. Sources also maintained that the decision was also taken as Priyanka Gandhi, who is now schedule to take up campaign from where Rahul Gandhi had left after his `Deoria se Dilli Kisan Yatra’, is not happy with PK, who projected himself in the media as if he could solely changed the fortune of Congress in UP and also tried to over-shadow all the other senior leaders including the members of Gandhi family.