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Is Jagan banking too much on Prashant?

Is Jagan banking too much on Prashant?

YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy’s overdependence on his newly-hired political strategist Prashant Kishor for every decision is learnt to be causing irritation to senior leaders in the party.

According to sources in the party, Prashant is exceeding his brief in deciding the policy matters of the party and dictating terms to the leaders, including seniors like Y V Subba Reddy and Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy.

With every passing day, he is coming out with some idea or the other and discussing them with Jagan and Vijay Sai Reddy. And the decision is straightaway being implemented, taking the other senior leaders in the party by surprise.

They wonder as to how Jagan is listening to Prashant, who is an outsider and implementing his strategies, without even discussing them in the party forums.

“Prashant has no idea of ground realities. First of all, he has to take the feedback from the elected representatives and seniors at the constituency level, because they know better what was going on at the field level. Imposing ideas from the top will not work at the ground level,” a senior observed.

What is worse, Prashant is said to be directly talking to party leaders at the constituency level, ignoring the local MLAs and other seniors.

“This will result in not only communication gap but also confusion. How can he delegate works to the party leaders without consulting the local representatives?” he asked.

Some of the seniors tried to bring the situation to the notice of Jagan, but he did not listen because he is depending solely on Prashant.

“After all, the party boss has to follow just one route. He cannot take suggestions from multiple sources and screw up the strategies,” another party leader said.

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