Congress can very well challenge BJP in 2024, says Prashant Kishor

Political strategist Prashant Kishor, in an exclusive conversation with India Today, said that Congress could challenge the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections only if they put their act together and prepare a 15-year plan of action.

Political strategist Prashant Kishor, in an exclusive conversation with India Today, said that if Congress puts its act together today, they can very well challenge the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2024.

Following the Congress's dismal performance in the recently concluded assembly polls in the five states Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa, Manipur and Punjab, a meeting of the Congress Working Committee(CWC) was held on March 14.

During the meeting, the CWC authorised the Congress President Sonia Gandhi to address ‘the organisational weaknesses’ and make comprehensive changes in the party structure at the state and national levels.

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Kishor said that Congress stands a chance in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections as the BJP, despite their dominance, was still struggling to get more than 50 seats out of the approximately 200 seats encompassing the East and South India, which include the states of Bihar, Bengal, Odisha, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.

“We have to go back to the drawing board and reincarnate the Congress. The soul, the ideas, and the ideologies remain but everything else has to be new,” Prashant Kishor said.

On being asked who will be the force magnet to bring everyone together in the opposition, he declined to name the face but said that if Congress really puts its mind together, it can be the entity around which the face could be formed.