The assembly has sparked hypothesis of Prashant Kishor advising the TDP.
Hyderabad:
In an attention-grabbing improvement in Andhra Pradesh politics 4 months earlier than the Meeting polls, former election marketing campaign strategist Prashant Kishor flew into the state and met Telugu Desam Occasion President Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday.
This has sparked hypothesis of Mr Kishor advising the get together, elevating eyebrows as a result of the Indian Political Motion Committee (I-PAC), based by him, had performed a task within the YSR Congress’ gorgeous victory within the state in 2019 and has been employed by the get together once more for the 2024 elections.
In a sign of the significance of the assembly, Mr Kishor flew to Vijayawada from Hyderabad in a non-public aircraft with TDP Normal Secretary and Chandrababu Naidu’s son Nara Lokesh and three different individuals. Among the many three was a former I-PAC member, who give up the organisation to affix political technique agency ShowTime Consulting, based by Robin Sharma, which is advising the TDP. I-PAC is led by Rishi Raj Singh in Andhra Pradesh.
On Saturday night, I-PAC posted on X, previously Twitter, that it’s devoted to working with the YSRCP till Jagan Mohan Reddy “secures a thumping victory once more in 2024”.
“I-PAC has been working in collaboration with @YSRCParty since final yr. Collectively, we’re devoted to working tirelessly till @ysjagan secures a thumping victory once more in 2024 and continues his unwavering efforts to higher the lives of the individuals of Andhra Pradesh.” the submit learn.
I-PAC has been working in collaboration with @YSRCParty since final yr. Collectively, we’re devoted to working tirelessly till @ysjagan secures a thumping victory once more in 2024 and continues his unwavering efforts to higher the lives of the individuals of Andhra Pradesh.
— I-PAC (@IndianPAC) December 23, 2023
Robin Sharma additionally suggested Mr Lokesh throughout his Yuva Galam padyatra (march), which concluded on December 18 after overlaying 3,132 km in Andhra Pradesh in a span of 226 days. The same march by YSR Congress Chief Jagan Mohan Reddy had performed a giant position in his get together successful the elections in 2019.
Strategist-Turned-Activist
Prashant Kishor performed a task in PM Narendra Modi’s marketing campaign within the 2014 elections and was additionally briefly a part of Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (United). He give up election technique after the Trinamool Congress, whose marketing campaign I-PAC had assisted, received the West Bengal elections in 2021.
Mr Kishor based the Jan Suraaj marketing campaign in 2022 and have become a political activist. He has been on a padyatra and has not dominated out Jan Suraaj reworking right into a political get together, however has asserted that he is not going to contest elections himself.
Telangana Issue
Political calculations for each the YSRCP and the TDP at the moment are considering the leads to Telangana, the place Congress pulled off a victory towards Ok Chandrashekar Rao of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi, who was seen as fashionable regardless of ruling the state since its formation in 2014. Telangana was carved out of Andhra Pradesh and a number of the points are comparable within the two Telugu states.
