Election strategist Prashant Kishor has declined Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s offer to join the party as part of the Empowered Action Group (EAG) for the 2024 general elections, the Congress party announced on Twitter on Tuesday.
The announcement came a day after the Congress chief had announced the setting up of the EAG to deal with the political challenges in the run up to the next Lok Sabha polls.
Moments later, Mr Kishor tweeted to say that he had declined to take responsibility for elections and pointed out that, “The party needs leadership and collective will to fix the deep rooted structural problems through transformational reforms”.