JAIPUR: Chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Wednesday said it will be good if the party makes use of the experience of poll strategist Prashant Kishor to bring the Opposition together.
He was talking to reporters before attending the meeting with Congress president Sonia Gandhi on the party's future poll strategy in assembly and general elections in New Delhi on Wednesday.
The chief minister said Kishor, popularly known as PK, has become a brand. He was with Narendra Modi during the 2014 Lok Sabha elections and later with Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, with the Congress in Punjab and with many other leaders.
“It will be good if his experience is used in uniting the Opposition and in fighting the NDA government. There is a need to do so,” he said.
Beside Gehlot, Chhattisgarh chief minister also met Sonia Gandhi here and discussed the organisation's strategy for the upcoming assembly and general elections.
The meeting was part of the deliberations being held to evolve a long-term strategy for the Congress and discuss the plan presented by Kishor.
The senior Congress leader alleged that the BJP leadership has no fear of what people would say. “They have become so arrogant that they think what they do is right and what they say is the last word, and they don't care about what people say,” he said.
“That is why these ‘tamashas’ (the spectacle of riots) are happening in the country pointing to the communal tension at many places recently. But, if they don’t care about what people say, people will teach them a lesson they will never forget,” he said.
Gehlot's comments came after a string of communal riots in different states, including in Karauli in Rajasthan, and hate speeches by Hindu hardliners.
