New Delhi:The Congress is debating the exact party role for poll manager Prashant Kishor, whose plan for revival of the grand old party has been discussed by a select group of senior leaders over the past week. After days of hectic consultations, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on Monday started deliberations to take a final view on the matter with a panel comprising AK Antony, P Chidambaram, K C Venugopal, Mukul Wasnik, Ambika Soni, Jairam Ramesh, Digvijaya Singh and Randeep Singh Surjewala and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.
The final round of consultations is expected to clarify the party’s stand on an issue which has become a talking point across the country, not only among the state Congress units but also among its allies. Over the past week, there was a broad consensus over inducting Kishor but the exact role and responsibility had been left at the discretion of Sonia Gandhi.
The meeting at the Congress chief’s residence has come a day after Telangana chief minister KC Rao, who is also president of TRS, signed a pact with Kishor’s outfit Indian Political Action Committee, which has been working with various parties in the past. Kishor’s past associations with PM Modi, JD-U, YSR Congress, DMK, AAP and TRS had been cited as a problem area by some Congress veterans who had asked the poll manager to sever his ties with these regional outfits if he wanted to join the Congress.