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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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