Karnataka election end result 2023: Political strategist-turned-activist Prashant Kishor in the present day (May 17) cautioned the Congress towards mistaking the victory in Karnataka meeting polls as a precursor to its efficiency in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
His assertion shared by ‘Jan Suraaj’, a political marketing campaign launched by the IPAC founder in his house state of Bihar, identified that regardless of the Congress successful the 2013 Karnataka elections it had gone on to lose to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2014 Parliamentary elections as additionally that the grand previous get together had misplaced the 2019 Lok Sabha elections after successful in three main states a 12 months earlier than.
“I congratulate the Congress upon its success in Karnataka. But I would also like to caution leaders and workers of the party against mistaking the assembly poll outcome for a hint of what lies in store in Lok Sabha polls,” mentioned Kishor, who stopped his statewide pada-yatra two days in the past after a muscle tear in his leg.
He has been convalescing at an undisclosed location since then. Kishor, perceived to be ideologically agnostic and therefore suspected by political gamers of all hues to be an agent of the rival, reeled out statistics to buttress his level on Congress’ prospects in Lok Sabha polls.
“It may be recalled that in 2012 the Samajwadi Party came to power in Uttar Pradesh with a clear majority. Two years later in the Lok Sabha poll BJP-led NDA swept the state, bagging 73 out of the 80 seats”, he identified.
He additionally recounted the 2013 Karnataka meeting ballot when the Congress gained a majority however misplaced out to BJP miserably in the Lok Sabha polls.
“The Congress would also do well to remember its success in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh in the 2018 assembly polls, which was followed by its miserable performance in these states just a few months later in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls,” Kishor mentioned.
The 45-year-old political analyst has dealt with ballot campaigns of leaders as various as Narendra Modi, Nitish Kumar, Arvind Kejriwal, M Ok Stalin and Jaganmohan Reddy. Kishor hung up his boots after the 2021 West Bengal meeting polls in which his consumer Mamata Banerjee romped house together with her finest ever electoral efficiency.
The launch of ‘Jan Suraaj’ adopted extended, however fruitless negotiations with high Congress leaders to whom he had tried to promote the promise of revamping the grand previous get together.
(With PTI inputs)
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