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MUMBAI: Famous political strategist Prashant Kishor met Nationalist Congress Celebration (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Friday, setting off speculations {that a} non-BJP, non-Congress nationwide entrance comprising regional events is within the offing forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha election.
The assembly over lunch at Pawar’s residence was additionally attended by NCP state president Jayant Patil and celebration MP Supriya Sule. The assembly lasted for greater than three hours, sources mentioned. Based on the sources, who have been aware about the dialogue, NCP chief Sharad Pawar and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee need to type a non-BJP, non-Congress entrance of all regional events to combat towards the BJP within the 2024 Lok Sabha polls and the Friday’s assembly targeted on the prospects of it.
“Prashant Kishor, to start with, gave a presentation and instructed us that there are greater than 400 Lok Sabha seats the place non-BJP and non-Congress events can combat strongly. Congress isn’t any extra able to defeat the BJP. Each alternate day, some Congress chief is both becoming a member of the BJP or different events. Due to this fact, if we need to defeat the BJP, the regional forces have to return collectively.In any other case, the authoritarian management of the saffron celebration will, steps by step, destroy India’s federal construction and its cultural range,” mentioned a supply.
“Prashant Kishor has proven that if all of the forces are introduced collectively, then the BJP can simply be defeated. He has proven it in West Bengal and different states as properly. In addition to, he’s additionally in contact with different regional events likes DMK, YRS Congress, Shiv Sena, Samata Celebration, and so forth. He can work as a catalyst on the bigger entrance,” mentioned one other supply.
“The agenda of this regional federal entrance shall be to guard the regional identification of those regional events and their federal construction. Prashant Kishor earlier mentioned that he’ll no extra work as a strategist for one celebration and may match on a much bigger aim and platform and a federal entrance might be in making for 2024,” mentioned the supply. Shiv Sena chief Sanjay Raut mentioned many leaders are in contact with Kishor, whereas NCP’s Chhagan Bhujbal mentioned he was no conscious of the agenda of the assembly.
“Kishor was a profitable political strategist. Sharad Pawar will consider Kishor’s solutions,” he added. Kishor had met Uddhav Thackeray in 2019 earlier than the latter grew to become chief minister It was Kishor’s first assembly with Pawar after the victory of the DMK and the TMC within the meeting elections in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal respectively. He had helped craft the election technique for these events within the Meeting elections. After the meeting ballot outcomes, the election strategist had mentioned that he was “quitting this house”.
