Eyeing 2024 LS polls, Cong again meets Prashant Kishor to discuss roadmap

New Delhi, April 19: Gearing up for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Congress is holding another meeting with poll strategist Prashant Kishor on Tuesday at party president Sonia Gandhi's residence. According to sources, Congress leaders, including Kamal Nath, Digvijaya Singh, Mukul Wasnik, KC Venugopal, Jairam Ramesh, AK Antony, Ambika Soni and Randeep Surjewala, are also present in the meeting at Sonia Gandhi's 10 Janpath residence. Notably, this is the third meeting between Sonia Gandhi and Prashant Kishor in the last four days amid speculation of the poll strategist joining the Congress party. The first meeting was held on April 16 while the second took place on April 18. Sources claim that two more such meetings are scheduled in the coming days. Earlier, Venugopal had informed that poll strategist Kishor had given a detailed presentation with a roadmap for the 2024 General elections. Responding to the questions, he said that Kishor's role in the Congress party will be known within a week. Also Read | Lt Gen Manoj Pande appointed new Indian Army Chief According to the sources, Kishor, in his presentation, suggested that Congress should fight alone in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Odisha while forming alliances in Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Maharashtra to which Rahul Gandhi has agreed. Kishor has also said that Congress should focus on 370 Lok Sabha constituencies for the 2024 general elections. These meetings come in the backdrop of Congress' poll preparations for Gujarat and Himachal Assembly elections this year. After the recent poll debacle in five states, Congress is seeking to restart negotiations with the poll strategist. The results of five Assembly polls came as a big setback to Congress which was hoping to do well to revive its prospects for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and to fend off the emerging challenge from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Trinamool Congress to replace it as the fulcrum of anti-BJP politics in the country. Also Read | Haryana makes masks mandatory in 4 NCR districts as Covid cases rise -PTC News