Outsider kept out

Congress leaders who have been trying to clip the wings of campaign strategist Prashant Kishor feel vindicated after Rahul Gandhi, in a recent interview, made it clear that Kishor would confine himself to organising campaigns and to managing logistics. Ticket distribution and party strategy would be decided by the party itself. Congresspersons are quick to point out that Kishor’s brainwave of appointing Sheila Dikshit as the party’s UP chief ministerial candidate has flopped. Dikshit spends most of her time in Delhi and there are few party posters with her face. The fight against Kishor is so vicious that false complaints have even been made against him, with accusations that he has been hobnobbing with AAP leaders.