Rahul Gandhi must step aside if Congress doesn’t perform well in LS polls, says Prashant Kishor

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi must think about stepping aside if the party does not get the results it wants in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, political strategist Prashant Kishor said, according to PTI.

Kishor said the Wayanad MP has been running the Congress for all practical purposes and has been unable to either step aside or let somebody else steer it despite his inability to deliver in the last 10 years.

“This according to me is also anti-democratic,” he added.

The political strategist said Gandhi should allow someone else to take charge for five years. “When you are doing the same work for the last 10 years without any success, then there is no harm in taking a break,” he said in an interaction with PTI editors.

“Your mother [Congress leader Sonia Gandhi] did it,” Kishor said, referring to her decision to stay away from politics after her husband and former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated in 1991. Sonia Gandhi joined the Congress in 1997 and became the party president in 1998.

Rahul Gandhi led the Congress’ campaigns for the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections, both of which the party lost to the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance by wide margins. He resigned as the Congress president after the party’s defeat...

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