'Old Friends, Old Wine': Navjot Sidhu Meets Prashant Kishor After Poll-Strategist Rejects Congress' Offer

Prashant Kishor declined the offer to join Congress days after he had given a proposal to revamp the party ahead of the 2024 general elections.

Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu with poll strategist Prashant Kishor. ( Image Source :Twitter/@sherryontopp )

New Delhi: After the poll strategist Prashant Kishor declined the offer by Congress to join the party, former PCC chief of Punjab, Navjot Singh Sidhu met his 'old friend' on Tuesday and shared a picture on Twitter.

Sidhu captioned the picture as "Had a wonderful meeting with my old friend PK … Old wine , Old gold and Old friends still the best !!!"

Prashant Kishor held several rounds of meeting with the Congress high command over the last few days but refused to join the party when he got an offer.  The poll strategist had given a proposal to revamp the party ahead of the 2024 general election. Kishor had given a detailed presentation with a road map for the 2024 General elections.

Taking to Twitter today, Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi constituted an Empowered Action Group 2024 and invited Kishor to join the party as part of the group with defined responsibility but he declined.

After declining the offer to join the Congress, poll strategist Prashant Kishor on Tuesday said that the party needs "leadership and collective will" to fix deep-rooted structural problems through transformational reforms.

Taking to Twitter, Kishor said, "I declined the generous offer of Congress to join the party as part of the Empowered Action Group (EAG) and take responsibility for the elections. In my humble opinion, more than me the party needs leadership and collective will to fix the deep-rooted structural problems through transformational reforms."

Following the Lakhimpur Kheri incident in October last year, Kishor had said that the people are looking forward to an opposition led by the Grand Old Party (the Congress), but the party first needs to fix its deep-rooted problems and remove its structural weaknesses.

"People looking for a quick, spontaneous revival of GOP-led opposition based on the Lakhimpur Kheri incident are setting themselves up for a big disappointment. Unfortunately, there are no quick-fix solutions to the deep-rooted problems and structural weakness of GOP," Kishor had said in a tweet