Congress got Prashant Kishore protege to set narrative in Karnataka
The HinduThe campaign of the Congress for the 2023 Karnataka Assembly elections was run from the party’s war room, set up in Bengaluru by KPCC vice-president Sooraj Hegde and KPCC general secretary Mehroz Khan. The war room was chaired by Randeep Singh Surjewala, Congress general secretary in charge of Karnataka. “War rooms are now a compulsory factor for political parties to ensure smooth communication, coordination, messaging, and also in ensuring timely action is taken based on information available through political intelligence and surveys,” said Mehroz Khan, a war room veteran and in-charge of the Congress war room in Bengaluru for the 2023 Assembly elections. Key talent from frontal organisations, like Youth Congress, NSUI and All India Professional Congress, was requisitioned to head various desks and handle different tasks in the war room.