New Delhi: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi said that the joining of election strategist Prashant Kishor joining the Congress party last year did not work for multiple reasons.

It was almost finalized PK joining Congress. But it did not materialize for multiple reasons, Priyanka Gandhi said.

She was speaking to NDTV said that “Prashant Kishor joining Congress did not work out for multiple reasons. Some on his part, some on our part. I don’t want to get into details of that. Broadly there was an inability to agree on certain issues. Which sort of impeded the discussion from moving forward”, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said.

Prashant Kishor held several rounds of discussions with Gandhi siblings last year. His meeting with the Gandhi family has sparked speculation of his entry into the grand old party.

But a few days later, Mr. Prashant Kishor was more critical against the Congress party, attacked dynast leadership.

Priyanka Gandhi denied reluctance within the party to bring an outsider into the grand old party. Had there been reluctance, there wouldn’t have been so many discussions regarding his entry to the party, she replied.

Recently Prashant Kishor stated that Congress does have a role to play in the opposition ahead of the 2024 national election, but not under the current leadership.

Prashant Kishor had worked with the Congress party in the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, but he flopped miserably. But his strategy helped Congress to come back to power in Punjab in the 2017 Assembly polls.