New Delhi, April 22
Amid a series of deliberations over a strategy for upcoming General and Assembly elections by poll strategist Prashant Kishor, a group of senior leaders of the Congress has given its recommendations to party president Sonia Gandhi and left it to her to take a call on them and initiate organisational changes.
Sources said the panel of eight leaders formed by the Congress president have discussed at length Kishor’s strategy plan and deliberated with several senior leaders while giving their suggestions to Gandhi and taking it forward in order to revive the grand old party.
Some leaders of the party would meet again on Monday for holding further deliberations on the party’s revival and strategy plan, even as Gandhi held discussions with the Congress president on Friday, sources add.
On Kishor’s entry into the Congress fold, though some senior leaders had reservations keeping in view his involvement with a number of political parties including the BJP, JDU, TMC and Congress in the past, a majority of them have favoured it but left it to the Congress president to take a final call.
Some senior leaders like Digvijaya Singh have said that Kishor has come out with a concrete
