Planner Sunil Kanugolu Turns into a 'Congress Insider' Because of Karnataka Win
The 40-year-old political race tactician is responsible for Congress' Lok Sabha political race for 2024.
In December 2022, five months before Karnataka races 2023, a man in all white kurta-pajama left an administration office in Hyderabad wearing a veil. As photograph columnists quickly clicked pictures, political writers in the city contemplated whether they had for sure spotted Sunil Kanugolu, Congress' political race specialist for Karnataka, Telangana and Gujarat decisions and furthermore Lok Sabha surveys 2024.In the event that Kanugolu was to be sure in Hyderabad,
abandoning his home in Bengaluru, very few would have remembered him, as the
subtle specialist who had gotten started with the other enormous name in the
field - Prashant Kishor, stays under the radar.
In the approach Karnataka races, which the Congress cleared
winning an agreeable larger part of 135 seats, Kanugolu should have been
visible, to the limited handful who can for sure remember him, hard as a
worker.
On the off chance that he was not on telephone conveying
effort subtleties in English, Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, and
Gujarati, or different dialects that he knows, Kanugolu would make a trip from
one state to the next, overseeing one political decision or the other. In the
numerous renditions about Kanugolu that one will hear, one characteristic
remaining parts consistent - he is an obsessive worker.
This is the thing The Quint has assembled about Kanugolu,
who stays quiet before the media however available in political circles.
How Kanugolu Worked In the background for Karnataka Surveys
Kanugolu doesn't appear to have close compatriots in the
party whose senior positions, other than the Gandhis, took in the planner with
some measure of wariness in 2022, when he joined the Congress as the top of its
mission procedure.
However, he has been working intimately with AICC General
Secretary (responsible for Karnataka races) Randeep Singh Surjewala, previous
Boss Clergyman Siddaramaiah and Karnataka Pradesh Congress Council (KPCC)
President DK Shivakumar, aside from an in excess of twelve other MLAs and party
laborers. He is likewise known to be near KC Venugopal, AICC general secretary
and association in-control.
Kanugolu's touch was found in the absolute best missions the
Congress came up, establishing the vibe for the decisions 2023.
PayCM mission and 40 Percent Sarkara crusade, which
designated the BJP for supposed defilement, were credited to him by some, even
as a few other party pioneer and laborers had loaned their help to these
missions. The missions conveyed a point - debasement and inadequacy is terrible.
How Sunil Kanugolu Drove a Current Enemy of Debasement
Mission
So, Kanugolu and his group, upheld by the Congress'
majority, made an enemy of defilement crusade effective in a nation where
political decision plan is generally determined by public and station
governmental issues. While debasement might not have drawn excited reaction
from individuals, the Congress had the option to uncover its enormous size.
"Avoiding polarizing manner of speaking and zeroing in on improvement,
hostile to defilement, and shortcoming of the occupant government got the job
done," a Congress source said.
Combined with this, Kanugolu was certain that the mission
lines must be continuous and direct. Many had seen him with virtual
entertainment crusade cards of the Congress even before they saw the light.
Around here, he continuously fussed over. Simultaneously, the Congress thought
of clear government assistance measures, with regards to the party's stand on
civil rights.
Kanugolu managed the 'ensure cards' - which recorded
Congress' key political race guarantees. The cards were conveyed in printed
versions to citizens, making the Congress lobby available.
With the assistance of Kanugolu, the Congress additionally
created statewide methodologies for every one of its six districts where
various worries were influencing individuals. Impact? Indeed, even in Beach
front Karnataka where the BJP cleared the surveys, the Congress figured out how
to get three seats.
Karnataka crusade which procured rich profits is supposed to
give a push for Kanugolu, who accepts he will keep on being a political race
specialist until the end of his work-life. He won't challenge decisions like
his partner Prashant Kishor, he has obviously imparted to the Congress, it is
said. However, who is Sunil Kanugolu?
A Backgrounder on Sunil Kanugolu
While he works from Bengaluru, his dad is Kannadiga and
mother, a Telugu. Kanugolu lived for long in Tamil Nadu. He concentrated on
designing as an undergrad and has two post advanced educations - a MS in Money
and a MBA. After he got back to India in 2009, his work has for the most part
been around races.
His organization Mindspace Examination was behind the
procedure for Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam's mission in Tamil Nadu in 2016.
Afterward, he worked intimately with BJP pioneer and Home Pastor Amit Shah in
2019. That very year, he dealt with DMK's Lok Sabha crusade.
Notwithstanding, it is said, he chose to join the Congress
since he favored the stupendous old party's perspective and aggregate insight.
Dissimilar to Prashant Kishor, who gets his very own group
to his employer, Kanugolu is known to fabricate a political decision group
without any preparation for every one of his ideological groups. Along these
lines, regardless of whether he isn't around to make due, the group can deal
with future races.
What Lies from here on out?
As per those in the loop, Sunil Kanugolu is supposed to get
the help that he merits inside the Congress, now that Karnataka decisions ended
up being a triumph.
He has at long last turned into an 'insider' in the fabulous
old party, whose pioneers could be more open to his way of electioneering from
now on.
Then, he will focus on Congress' mission in Telangana, where
Gathering decisions are supposed to be held in 2023.
However, Kanugolu's eyes will be set on Lok Sabha races
2024, during which he is supposed to assume a vital part for the Congress. An
active planner, he is known to address everybody in the Congress - from Rahul
Gandhi to PCC presidents and, surprisingly, youthful laborers in his group.
The Lok Sabha decisions could be a basic analysis for the
40-year-old's ability.
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